FrothyMix

You didn't answer my question, of course. What is wrong with a minor PRETENDING to act out a sexual scene? Why is that worse than a minor pretending to murder someone?

Do you think it's "wrong" for 15 year-old actors to pretend to assault or murder, kidnap or beat other actors to present the appearance of such activities within a fictional drama, or is your outrage reserved for sexually-related plot devices?

What makes you think he kept the whole audience. I began FF about halfway, hoping it might improve. My hope was in vain. I am sure many people dropped this film early on.

You seriously won't even spell out S-E-X? You have some real hangups there.

Yeah, deep in the sewer. It's pretentious trash.

What do you mean? The son was 15? The actor? The character? What? Either way, this is a fictional story; he was ACTING, not DOING. This did not happen IRL, you see? OK.

The reviewers above saying this is some great artistic achievement are just jerking off, intellectually. The people who made this thing are perfectly entitled to do as they wish, I'm not even upset that I saw it, though from about halfway, I began to skim rapidly. It's basically trash, and I'm not opposed to trashy movies. Andy Warhol made a Dracula movie in the 70s that I loved. But this is trash with one great conceit: no dialogue. So it has no dialogue...so what? It's still shock-value garbage although I was only shocked by the opening scene; after that I felt kind of embarrassed for the actors and myself. There are so many plot holes and stupid shit in the story it's not worth reciting them. So...I wouldn't recommend it, but if you like to see really trashy trash that is also boring and repetitive and pretentious, then watdj this piece of shit.

Tried to watch SS2 on Gaga but it's gotten really bad. The acting, the characters, all of it. Hugo's fake crying after Hin dumped him is excruciatingly bad. Don't care for any of the characters so no one to care about/relate to. Dropped.

I would guess things are even worse for gay people in North Korea. That's the kind of society where people think homosexuality doesn't even EXIST. The deliberately imposed ignorance is breathtaking in scope.

Easy to say if you're not in that position. If he steps out of line to help, then HE becomes the target.

Sweet holy god, insecure, vicious homophobes are disgusting, wherever they are. Give a few like this some authority over others combined with the madness of group-think, and all hell breaks loose.

Why is it your place to rob people of a clean slate-reaction to the action in a film? Your "warning" should be a spoiler tag.

That's fine, you can do what you want of course, but I've never understood people who want any inkling one way or the other about what is or is not going to happen in a movie before they watch it. That prior knowledge eliminates your capability of having an authentically raw response to what goes on in the film. But I guess that's exactly what you are trying to avoid, which is exactly what I don't understand.

They kept me guessing. I did NOT think it was who it turns out to have been. I was most suspicious of Naoto.

Well...if falling over into a bush is "passing away quietly," then yeah.

You're missing a lot of good stuff? How can you know it's not worth watching without...watching at least a portion of it?

I assumed when I got to "hateful problematic trope" line that you were most likely a female SJW and it looks like I was right, since female is how you describe yourself in your profile and SJW speaks for itself in what you've written here about the gay couple. What was "hateful" about the way they met? They were in a gay bath house; everyone is presumed to be there for sex, and Naoto barely fought back at all...I think on some level he was getting off on being forcefully taken. People do that, you know...they have sexual urges and fantasies that don't define who they are, and they like to act them out from time to time. Some hot, aggressive sex followed by coffee, a nice meal and an overnight invite to a beautiful penthouse apartment sounds like a great evening to the majority of gay men, is my guess. Being that I'm a gay man who's been around for more than a little while.

Why is it so many SJW women presume to know and profess judgements about gay male sexuality, when that is something they cannot possibly understand or experience? That same experience wouldn't work for a lot of gay men, or it would only work if it was a different guy, but for Naoto, he was totally on board with the f**king he got and wanted.

Yeah, that's all pretty true. Yuma's a jerk but Naoto didn't really fight back much and who hangs out in a male bathhouse if you're not there to get laid was Yuma's attitude, I think. But yeah, I mean, I'm not delicate about sexual assault but it was sort of weird that there was this quiet, semi-violent forceful sex going on with all these other guys right there. I also kept thinking how messed up it was to take in someone you f**ked in a bathouse anonymously and vice versa. Naoto withholding info about who he was, where he was from, who the girl in the cafe was, etc. felt to me like one of those weak plot points that cause mystery and conflict when there really isn't a reason for it. Yuma asks Naoto about some perfectly valid things including the girl and instead of simply telling the truth he cuts his hair and sneaks out. Go figure. Something about the Naoto actor's face bugs me. I've seen him in at least one other movie or series.

Whoa. What a ride. A lot of powerful material and performances, but I almost feel like there was so much going on and so many characters to keep track of that I didn't connect deeply with any of them. Toward the end, as so many things began to reveal themselves, I noticed I wasn't shedding tears and I'm someone who cries fairly easily. Of all that emerged in the last 20 minutes what moved me the most was Aiko's dad reaching out to Tashiro on the phone, urging him to return and that he would help him in any way he could. The sense of relief and immeasurable joy it would have brought to Tashiro to know that he was not alone any more, that there were at least two good people by his side and he didn't have to struggle in the shadows anymore. THAT made me cry. :)

Yeah, I just felt overwhelmed by three plots and multiple characters in each one that the film lost me a little toward the end. But I'm glad I saw it. Lots of great acting. The young victim of those U.S. soldiers is almost ethereally beautiful.

THAT's what you take away from this movie? The base is strategically important. What needs to go are psychos, bigots, white supremacists and fucked-up young men of all kinds who permeate the U.S. military because it is desperate for personnel and will take almost anyone.