Zen Noir
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Movie Reviews of Zen Noir
Movie Review: Need to do your Zen homework first
Summary: 4 Stars
I have just started studying Buddhism and Zen, so I could smile at the Zen humor. On the other hand, my wife and son just stared at the screen in complete boredom. I know this movie is a koan, 2 weeks later I am still trying to figure it out. A koan cannot be figured out with logic, so be prepared to feel confused (koans are supposed to confuse you) about how loved ones die and leave us heart broken, people in general just die, people commit suicide, and how all of us are slowly dying. All this death is like eating an orange. Hey, is that the answer to the koan?Movie Review: It's not *about* Zen, it *is* Zen
Summary: 4 Stars
Zen Noir is a fascinating movie, one of those films that, no matter what you think of it at the end, sticks with you for a LONG time, and your opinion continues to morph as your understanding evolves.
In speaking with other viewers, we found that what you experience watching the movie is as interesting as the movie itself. And how you deal with that experience is an opportunity for understanding and insight... it *is* Zen.
Movie Review: Visionary Film
Summary: 4 Stars
This visionary film is both entertaining and insightful regarding the true meaning of Zen.Movie Review: a bit let down
Summary: 3 Stars
Despite a few cliched moments, the film is smart and stylish, cagily self-conscious, appealing but not mesmerizing, beautiful, but fortunately not gorgeous. Its message is a meditation on the complexion of death as part of life, successfully generating the idea of death as life's beginning. The idea itself rebukes post-modern culture, and the film works hard to engage that. But a disappointing script, and editing which strives for supra noir effect, leaves the impression of a film without real justification except artfulness. Not a bad cause, but one to be considered before purchase. Still, a film 'about' Zen is bound to be captivating especially for Zennists, and perhaps western Buddhists in general. I enjoyed it, but have difficulty recommending it for most viewers even though most of us need the message desperately. The film is darkly hilarious, and yet shallow given the prospects raised by the title's idea. Rosenbush takes an intriguing run with it. How well he fares is a question up for grabs, decided by one's interest in things fanciful and yet strangely intimate. The film's artifice is its magic, and it's often winning, but never transforming. For what it's worth, I'm many years a Zen practitioner.Movie Review: Not real impressed
Summary: 3 Stars
I wasn't real excited about this one. I didn't think it was all that interesting or all that funny.
It's about a guy (kind of a Humphrey Bogart tough guy type) in an undershirt and hat. He is an investigator and goes off to this Buddhist temple/meditation complex to find out why this Buddhist Monk died. On the idea that someone murdered him, he begins to question the inhabitants of the temple. They answer in Zen-type answers which is kinda funny but not all that funny. He falls for a bald lady Buddhist while he's there, but it's OK. He is pretty bald under the hat. You even get to see him butt-naked. (I could have passed on that.) He even takes his hat off.
Actually, I was glad he took his clothes off, to air them out. I think he wore the same clothes for the whole time he was there investigating. I got the impression he was there for at least a week.
In the end, he winds up learning the peaceful flow of Zen-living and more Zen stuff.
Ehhh. I'll never watch it again.