#guilty of romance

[loo-nuh-tik]

Guilty of Romance (2011) dir. Sion Sono

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

Guilty of Romance, 2011

[welcome-to-the-cafe]

Guilty of Romance (2011)

This is a Sion Sono movie, which apparently carries certain weight and implications that I didn't know until after the viewing. I will admit it is an artful film, in the sense that all creative choices seem very deliberate, heavyhanded even, but very clear. I don't agree with those choices but they do all contribute to the film as a sort of cinematic painting, rather than a story. Yes, it seemed the director was painting with his favorite colors, rather than engineering a tight movie. I have only seen trailers of his other movies but I can see the same colors in those.

Major Spoilers below.

Color 1: Megumi Kagurazaka

The main character is a housewife played by the director's own wife. He...really likes showing her off. She doesn't disappoint of course, in acting or, er, physical appeal. But knowing shes married to Sion gives an...interesting dynamic to her scenes.

Color 2: Cuckoldry and Cheating

It happens so much it's almost satirical. Maybe it is, but maybe also unironic given Color 1.

Color 3: Psychology, Philosophy

Wax poetic about the power of words and actions. The scenes between the Izumi and Mitsuko I personally did not find very engaging or informative. I'll just accept that Izumi is spiritually seduced by Mitsuko's poetic turn of phrase, but Mitsuko is just using her highbrow academic language to trap her prey.

Color 4: Corruption, Degradation

The main characters are all women, but I didn't find the movie particularly feminist or empowering. All 4 major female characters make humiliation and degradation central to their characters. Men are in the picture as dastardly enablers, but the women make the conscious decisions to further their own self-destruction. Perhaps because they are trapped in patriarchy, all their efforts to empowerment also slide them toward doom?

I now think this dilemma is one of the stronger parts of the movie. Izumi is spiritually freed by embracing her sexuality, but she is also disturbed and the guilt corrodes her. Her mirror scene was, er, great for viewers, but the longer it went on, the more uncomfortable and effective it became. Yeah that girl ain't right.

Color 5: Gore, Shock

This is the weakest color for me. The gory nature of the murder I felt was askew to the tone and message of movie as whole, and felt like it was just there to draw viewers and make them wonder what kind of killer would do such a thing.

The resolution to the murder, though present, was unsatisfying, unlike Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder, which was unresolved but satisfying.

Artistically, the murder as a component of the movie does match the nature of the murder itself, a few bloody weirdly tacked on pieces.

The SA components were, again, disturbing and effective, and I think too much.

I did not appreciate the final scene with kids whatsoever. I really hope those kids weren't actually there,

Other Things

Hated that pimp character, he is actually just...awful. Good casting, because I hated him immediately.

Hated the husband, instantly knew he was slime and went out to cheat all the time. I didn't guess it was every damn day though.

Makoto Togashi has a jawline that can lift a continent.

I really liked the trash-truck chasing metaphor, and that the movie ended on that. Really tied up the corruption color, I just hope Sion didn't make Miki Mizuno run that much.

Overall, a pretty good viewing experience.

[lullabiesinaglasswilderness]

[starryeyed-spacegirl]

Chapter 27 of As We Fall is up!

"For Us Romantics Up Here" is short on words but high in dopamine. So... here, take some :)

[fiimscreencaps]

“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love”

Love Exposure (2008)

Sion Sono

[tankirb]

The reason Sol and Axl are best friends in Xrd is because they're the only people who will get their 100 year old music references.

This is canon and you can't convince me otherwise.

[myheadphonesareneverloudenough]

mikey posted a single picture to his instagram story guys did you hear? mcr5 is gonna be released for the 750th time since 2019! the little gay people in my computer told me so!

[nothinglessidk]

did u know that the intro of symphony is a reference to a MCR song?, yeah i dont have anyone to talk to, also i did this fanart

[drowningparty]

I just think the polite, well-behaved young man who secretly enjoys murdering people with his bare hands and gouging their eyes out and the blood-splattered god who delights in carnage and gleefully exploding people with his mind should, hand in unloveable hand, embrace their primal rage, become avatars of the slaughter together, and be deliriously happy for all of 2 seconds before one of them invariably kills the other. and it would be a real coin toss who dies first

[loo-nuh-tik]

Koi no tsumi (2011)

Yötön Yö (2023)

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

Guilty of Romance, 2011

[artoriarts]

I think that being alone in frasco made aba a very sensory-oriented person. and that translates a lot into how she shows affection, especially given paracelsus, while he can be hugged or kissed or humped, can’t really reciprocate too terribly much and probably doesn’t feel it as vividly or in the same way as those of biological body. basically what I’m saying is aba does asmr for paracelsus as a form of intimacy

[thebookworm0001]

i can't quite put words together about it but it is very funny and telling that when solas talks to you on your balcony, it is wildly obvious in retrospect how he's trying to figure out if you're more like the spirits he considers people than the rest of thedas

"your mind, your morals, your [insert massive pause and look off into the distance] spirit"

like, i wonder which one of those things matters most to you in this moment. you'd never be able to tell

[isriune]

farcille sports AUs

[cosmicwhoreo]

Cookie oc romance chart meme

I hwas bored and currently going through an art rut, a'ight?

I wanna do more with me other cookies, like Prawn and Walrus. But I just did these first cuz they're the only one's I have a real idea on for their romantic inclinations. Blank under the cut