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- From: rmc@wang.com (rmc)
- Subject: Re: KOR movie
- Organization: Wang Laboratories, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:49:45 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: ranma@pegasus.com's message of 27 Dec 92 15:00:20 GMT
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- ranma@pegasus.com (Doug Cha) (>) and dhiga@aludra.usc.edu (Darold
- Higa) (>>) discuss the sadness of the KOR Final Movie:
-
- >>Everyone deals with things like this differently. I personally think
- >>that this is almost TOO realistic. Hit pretty close to home with me. The
- >>movie soundtrack is still too depressing for me to listen to it.
- >
- > I think I'll buy the Movie soundtrack so I can be sad every day.
- >
-
- Hmm, i needed a good cry recently and tried "Message in Rouge" and the
- KOR final movie to get it with essentially zero success. What i
- really needed was the three or episodes of Maison Ikkoku around the
- mid-20s that end with Karinin-san walking up the hill with her cans of
- Pacinko winnings.
-
- KOR is nicely drawn and enjoyable and engaging, but somehow the actual
- story telling just doesn't seem to cross the line to fully adsorbing
- me (a bad pun...). I am always aware that i am watching a movie and
- never fully identify with any of the characters.
-
- Consider the scene where Hikaru points out that she was always aware
- of Kyoske's feelings for Madoka, but thought that she had "won" when
- she got the kiss. Now, if Ben Dunn or Hirano Toshihiro or Takahashi
- Rumiko had done that scene, we would have found out what Kyoske
- thought about this. I mean, he had spent how many years trying to
- keep all this feeling under wraps, and he just found out that the
- effort had been rather pointless. He now has to confront the fact
- that Hikaru is not C-ko, just as we are warned in the opening lines of
- "Sweet Kisses" (the ending theme to most of the OAVs. It goes
- something like "I'm not as superficial as you think".) So what does
- he do? Nothing. He just says go away. Now, character to character
- Kyoske is always uncommunicative and incoherent, but we have come to
- expect a good "internal monologue" from such scenes, where Kyoske
- (possibly an older, remeniscing Kyoske) thinks through what just
- happened. Consider the "internal monologues" from the "White
- Vacation" episode or "Message in Rouge" for contrast.
-
- Now, emotionally, this is the climax of the movie. This is the
- shatter point of the relationship. This is where Kyoske must confront
- his prior (possibly uninitentionally) malicious behavior. It doesn't
- need a Hitchcock or Kurosawa to see this. Expletive censored deleted
- director and script writer of KOR, however, biological improbability
- the moment.
-
- Oh, i got my cry OK. I listened through the letter writing scene and
- the garden scene from "Evgeniy Onegin". If i had had the ballet
- instead of the opera, that would have worked even better...
-
- R Mark Chilenskas
- rmc@wang.com
-
-