Check out my review of the new Michel Gondry-Leos Carax-Bong Joon-Ho movie triptych Tokyo! over at The L Magazine. A mix of childish escape fantasy, return-of-the-repressed invasion from beneath nightmare and cultural paralisis, the film doesn't seek to offer some intangible insight into its city setting (like Paris je t'aime and the like). Instead, through Tokyo! we get a glimpse of Japan as a place of contradictory cultural impulses towards a kind of reactionary nationalism and a globalism-embracing liberalism. Each vignette offers a different solution to these coliding socio-political agendas. Read my review here.
Tokyo!
Check out my review of the new Michel Gondry-Leos Carax-Bong Joon-Ho movie triptych Tokyo! over at The L Magazine. A mix of childish escape fantasy, return-of-the-repressed invasion from beneath nightmare and cultural paralisis, the film doesn't seek to offer some intangible insight into its city setting (like Paris je t'aime and the like). Instead, through Tokyo! we get a glimpse of Japan as a place of contradictory cultural impulses towards a kind of reactionary nationalism and a globalism-embracing liberalism. Each vignette offers a different solution to these coliding socio-political agendas. Read my review here.
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