Sep 09 2010
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Despite some disturbing scenes and issues, this is a glowing movie. It tells the epic of how the search for money and glory can raze right happiness. What makes the sage work is a lot of different things. First of all, the acting is very reliable. Watching in in subtitles (there wasn’t any other option) helped with appreciating this facet of the movie. The scenery and costumes were shapely obliging as well. The directing was what was the most outstanding. I confess that I have a quandary with most unusual movies in that they point to a heavy dependance on unique technology and declining apt standards. This enables unique films to employ two avenues of showing more and more which leaves less and less to the imagination. The talent on expose in “Ugetsu” shows how directing at its’ best was a right art form; greater, often, than the acting itself. There are several scenes that advance to mind. As soldiers rape and pillage, there comes a scene of a gang rape of a woman. Everything we seek on film makes it positive in our minds as to what has taken space. Yet the only clothing we witness removed is a pair of sandals. Another scene involves an erotic encounter in which, again we understand clearly yet are not invited to view. There are other scenes sterling of mention but I don’t want to give anything away. The map this movie moves along is another testament to its’ director; Kenji Mizoguchi.
On the negative side, this movie is currently only available on VHS. I confess to being frustrated with all of my Beta movies and now all of my VHS movies seeming to head towards obsolescence. However, I have advance to be pleased the quality as well as the other features of DVD’s. Thus I found myself immediately focussing on the occassional snap, crackle, and pop of the VHS quality. Unexcited, once I was engrossed in the sage (and that didn’t acquire long to happen), it either ceased to bother me or the quality improved and the movie progressed.
There is a timeless message in this movie that will come out to unprejudiced about all viewers. It has to do with identifying our values and appreciating what we have rather than what we desire. Sounds like a message we’ve heard before but I’m not clear it’s been presented quite so well before or since.
The first time I saw this movie reminded me of my first time seeing The Passion of Joan of Arc, or Solyaris: like I had found something I had lost. Ugetsu is the memoir of two couples in 16th century Japan (a brother and sister and their respective spouses) and the misadventures that befall them when they dwelling out from their village to sell pottery in the city. A hauntingly sparkling meditation on the private but universal struggle between worship and greed, Ugetsu, which translates (it says here) as “Tales of a Pale and Mysterious Moon After the Rain,” feels exactly like you’d demand film with that title to feel: it has the visual texture and depth of Dreyer’s greatest films and the comfortable sadness of Ozu’s masterpieces. Truly one of the most rewarding moviegoing experiences of my life.
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