The Eel
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Actor: Akira Emoto, Fujio Tsuneta, Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko BaishoDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: New Yorker Video
Movie Reviews of The Eel
Movie Review: IGNORE P. WU'S REVIEW
Summary: 5 Stars
According to P. Wu, "The Eel" is a "male-dominant movie" because:
1. The guy gets only 8 years for murdering his wife. (Maybe that's the way it is in Japan. What's unrealistic about that???)
2. He was "mean" because he was "unsociable" and "mean" for rejecting the lunches that a woman made for him.
Then P. Wu says, "All he had to do was dish out some kindness once in a while, and the girl was hooked. Men's fantansy if you ask me."
What P. Wu FAILS to mention is that the reason the man murdered his wife is because she was cheating on him. Plus, the reason he is "unsociable" and "mean" to the woman who makes lunches for him is because SHE LOOKS LIKE HIS LATE WIFE WHO CHEATED ON HIM.
I'm pretty sure if your spouse was cheating on you, you would behave in a "unsociable" and "mean or unpleasant" way to a woman who looked like your wife. And that goes for if the gender roles were reversed. I'm sure a woman would behave the same way to a nice guy if he looked like her unfaithful husband.
P. Wu, if you're going to write a review--AT LEAST TELL THE WHOLE STORY. Not just what you want to manipulate the readers to think.
Aside from all that, "The Eel" is an excellent movie on betrayal, redemption and forgiveness. In many ways it reminded me of "Crime and Punishment." I highly recommend it. Incidentally, "The Eel" co-won the Best Picture award at the Cannes Film Festival. I'm pretty sure the Grand Jury didn't find "The Eel" to be a sexist film that Pet8 would want you to think.
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