Taboo
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Movie Reviews of Taboo
Movie Review: Not for people who want a hollywood ending
Summary: 5 Stars
This lovely film about a young man whose beauty eats other men's souls asks more questions than it answers. Yay! I've read so many reviews of this film that express dissatisfaction with its ethereal vagueness. But that's kinda the point. People in Japan in 1860, or today for that matter, don't generally see being gay as an identity, but as an action or series of actions. Expecting the characters to somehow come out of the closet is a peculiarly western demand. Ambiguity of morals, responsibility, blame, action are all pretty typical of Japanese cinema. Like pistachio ice cream, it's not the flavor for everyone. Other reviews complain that Matsuda Ryuhei's looks are more bizarre than beautiful. Once again, he looks Japanese. Zhang Ziyi in Memoirs of a Geisha is not what real Japanese people, let alone idealized 19th century ones, look like. This film really explores perversity. Not because of a bit of semi-graphic sodomy, but because almost everyone in the film loses their moral compass over a pretty face. What makes it titillatingly icky is the fact that Matsuda Ryuhei was only 15 when this was filmed.Movie Review: Shadows and Light
Summary: 5 Stars
This film displays the use of photography as film better than any other living director. Watch The Royal Tennenbaums or Element of Crime and you think that every shot is a photograph. Watch Madadayo, Ran, or The Celebration and every shot is an emotion. Watch Taboo and every shot is a wood engraving on an antique piece of Japanese furniture. An effect that cannot be said about any other film without possible consideration of Seven Samurai or Sanjuro. Oshima has taken a simple piece of homoerotic film and has made a Jarman-like transcendance to something more. And that is all I should have to say. This is not just a film, it is something more. A good story alone is a book, and a good story with brilliant scenery is enlightening. You are seeing the reason why someone decided to give pictures motion. This is not one of the best films I have seen, but is one of the most beautiful pictures I have every spent a few hours looking at.Movie Review: Taboo is gratifying & pleasing
Summary: 5 Stars
Have always like Japanese films, not all of course, but quite a few. In addition the culture, history & society of that land is of endless fascination. Must admit also to a liking for the traditional costumes (would be good fun to be a samurai warrior for a short time, but no head cutting please) & of course many of the men that well fill such costumes. To bring an end to the digression, will now talk about the film Taboo. It is a beautiful film. Magnificent settings, good dialogue, interesting story, well told. There are many scenes that will remember for a long time, one is when the older samurai takes our hero to the parlor to be introduced to the pleasures of the feminine sex. Kano takes the hand of the older samurai in such a sweet way, particularly considering how well that those same hands so easily cut off heads. Would I recommend Taboo, you bet you little bippy I would, don't miss it!!!Movie Review: Passionate Complexity Among Men...
Summary: 5 Stars
The young and handsome samurai Kano is courted by some other samurai that dwell within the same walls. This is observed by the elder samurai to be a not too uncommon phenomenon among the samurai, but it is something that is well concealed by them. However, it seems like the attention that Kano is attracting is too obvious, which the elders try to prevent and reverse through the use of women. Meanwhile, there is a struggle brewing among those who have mutual feelings for Kano and this is running in a disastrous direction. Taboo is a film that portrays homosexuality in a male dominating society where men carry themselves with an outmost social confidence providing for terrific film experience.Movie Review: An amazing movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Ah, the joys of watching a really good movie. I saw this on DVD a couple of years ago, and I was really impressed. It has everything one could want in a samauri picture. Beheadings, sword fights, sake drinking and sex. Of course, not the type of sex that most americans would be able to picture amongst Samauri, but then it is/was a different culture than our own. The movie is beautifully photographed, the lead is just stunning to look at, and the whole story is fascinating.
All-in-all, a great film.
Highest rating.