Bhavna

I was looking for more things from Issey Takahashi coming off Kishibe Rohan, and I landed on this story. I thought the premise and the title sounded super interesting and was eager to watch it. The whole movie has a slow, dark, and gloomy vibe- not a bad thing but it wasn’t very interesting. I’m all about slow but it was missing real juice and life. The whole movie felt lifeless. I literally watched it for him, but after a very short while I couldn’t bring myself to care about any of the characters. Also the Takahashi character’s flashback about his wife killing their kid and then killing herself reminded me a lot of Shutter Island- where the man basically loses himself after that incident. Never thought I would say it but in this particular case I would prefer the Hollywood version (which I usually don’t).