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aslouie -> RE: I Just Saw... (5/6/2008 6:40:38 PM)
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Saw Expelled this past Sunday; I had to say it's still impressive, considering Ben Stein seems to be borrowing heavily the same kind of political documentary motif at best, schtick at worst, of not only Michael Moore, but even Errol Morris (think Thin Blue Line, or even his more recent fare, The Fog of War, Standard Operating Procedure). In short, I think it can be something of a conservative/Christian take on Fahrenheit 9-11/Bowling For Columbine.
Vengeance Is Mine.
It's somewhere between depressing and depraved affair, more so since as posted earlier, it's based on a true story.
PREMISE: Japanese Catholic con man goes on a killing spree, while scamming his victims on the side from the post-war years of Japanese history, all the way to the mid-60's (think the Tokyo Olympics), right when he gets hanged for his crime. The flashbacks gives the audience get more than an eyeful of the anti-hero's past, most disturbingly is his pious Catholic Dad (hint: the part where the latter decided to take up the husband's role for the former's wife--never mind the fact that Mom's still alive, but gravely ill)[>:][:(][:'(].
I guess that's why I find it more edifying for (director) Shohei Imamura, to make much more light-hearted fare towards the end of his life, such as The Eel (Unagi), and Dr. Akagi.
Next stop; Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer.... Yeah I know: I can be too morose at times (with true-crime dramas).[8|][8|][8|]*
*perhaps get some kind of moral/human study of how "unsettled" people came to be?
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