This 1992 Japanese film tells the story of a scientist who sets out to create the new "super Adam and Eve", humans who cannot be controlled by their emotions. Of course, the end result it not exactly what the good doctor expects.
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This modern tale of an attempt to build a creature is one of the best "horror" films ever made, even if its not a horror film but something else entirely. Certainly its on my short list of all time great films.
This film was introduced to me by someone who told me "I have this film that probably one of the best films you'll ever see. It will move you and touch you and make you think, but if I told you what it is and told you how its done you will think its the stupidest thing on the face of it and you won't watch it." Intrigued I asked what did he mean, and he said, "Well its a Frankenstein story, with a very goofy sort of edge, but which uses it to its advantage." My ears perked up, and I being a trusting soul took the tape and watched it. I was blown away.
The plot concerns a mad scientist attempting to make a new Adam and Eve in the wake of a suicidal plague that is ravaging the world. Locked up in his lab his experiments go differently then either he or we expect. Some of it is silly (The bolts in the neck, the wrestling moves...), all of it is touching and thought provoking.
I can not recommend this movie enough. If you are willing to take the film on its terms and allow it to tell its story then I urge you to seek this film out and see it. This is an undiscovered gem that will stay with you forever.
15 out of 10 and then some. 10/10
Also known as "The Last Frankenstein", this is an extraordinary, impeccably produced horror film. Director Takeshi Kawamura uses Mary Shelley's novel as a mere launching pad for an exploration of subjects as diverse and fascinating as the nature of love, desire, suicide, mass hypnosis, sex, alienation and jealousy.
And though the film is dense with subtext, it is also stunningly photographed and rich in atmosphere and detail. The performances are all amazing and Kawamura's sensitive handling of the strange, delicate relationships between the characters results in an emotionally charged, angst-ridden tragedy.
The scenes of the confused, troubled monster hurtling through a fog-shrouded forest at night are memorable and striking, as is a brilliant home movie-style montage of the film's more curious characters enjoying a precious afternoon at the beach. Kawamura creates resonating visual poetry of horror and sadness barely sighted since Todd Browning's classic "Freaks".
Intelligent, emotional, tragic and real, this is an absolute gem. 9/10
8.3 追寻清晰的繁复，结尾太犯规了，以至于只能以彩蛋的方式回到现实。
不知道该打几星，两星四星似乎都很合适。行了行了，知道你们很甜蜜了，下一个。
很私人。幸好我看过不少洪，我大概明白他还在通过拍一样的电影通过敏敏持续了解女性和女性之间的神奇领域，最后的表白，被误解为想要表达一种浪漫的告白，真想拍拍他的头，请他继续吧别放弃。持续林间散步，做你的哲学
讲电影的故事在电影院看电影 真的很适合在电影院看 第一次有这样奇妙神奇的影院体验
感慨，每位老面孔都像是《哭泣的男人》中的东木本人，承载着来自观众的记忆，情怀，情绪，共同收束在最后的影像中。注定是一部对每位观众都有着私人意义的电影。
''故事总得有点情节吧！''''我喜欢这个故事，因为真实发生过。''那咱还能说点啥呢。
很显然，这是一部个人化色彩极其浓烈的作者电影，旁若无人，没有在乎观众的需求，表面上是小说家的创作价值取向，其实就是洪尚秀的电影宣言，喜欢的人会完全被这种形式驯服，厌弃者则毫不迟疑地放弃观看。
3.5 除了比以往更大方秀恩愛，敏喜美得讓人心顫blah blah blah⋯《소설가의 영화》的李慧英是《당신얼글 앞에서》的李慧英的反面，過氣小說家靈機一動嘗試為拍部電影寫故事、呼應觀眾「敏喜不需要你的可惜」、「新娘來了」、「I love you」，給我的感覺似乎更有從前虛實不分的觀感了。——22.06.04
像是《在你面前》的延续，前半小时就仿佛每个人物嵌套其中，挥发余韵，而在金敏喜出场后又一秒踏回到敏后人均一吹的节奏里，舒适柔软。
洪尚秀真是撒了一手的好粮啊呜呜呜 电影概念也好棒
书店老板和酒友是小说家的部分过往，女演员和电影学生是一种未来的可能。过往、现在和未来齐聚一桌，把酒畅谈。小说家也借此避开对不公现实（导演夫妇）的愤慨，就像她开头避开书店里的争吵声那样。最后短暂的彩色画面是小说家眼前一束光。
在第一个场景中，小说家便要求放弃听觉，将表意集中在视觉之上，随后正是通过陆续几次视线的引导，实现了望远镜中的金敏喜、窗外的小女孩以及摄影机背后的丈夫的出场，又或者说是视线创造了裂变以及角色。在这部电影中，叙事的结构与路线的结构重合为一条环线，沿途拾掇然后回到起点，在金敏喜的入睡中休止，随后另起一章，既可以视作在同一条线路上直接往下延展，又能依附于入睡时刻形成上下的层级关系，甚至在此发生了小说家/演员之间视点的分裂与偏移也并不重要，因为她一早便是从视觉中衍生的。
洪常秀的电影已然成为我的标尺，每年的相遇又重逢都在丈量着我迷影的长度。
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表象是创作力衰竭，进入瓶颈期后因一次重逢、一种偶然、一场会晤而顿生的灵感再现，这种灵感是创作者有意为之的、带有目的性的自我挖掘与试探，试图在灵感匮乏的时期以崭新的形式激活另一条思路。内核却是几次创作飞速蜕变，创作力只增不减，从文本到形式在细微处呈大幅变迁，神来之笔屡现，这种蓬勃的创作态势在其当下的阶段成为某种步入大师殿堂的证言。值得深究的是，在表象与实质内核间，文本用以反讽的作用以及其实际目的。连贯风格的同时，仍以令一般观众无法察觉的文本变化来隐藏其内里深刻的蜕变，从细微的变化中掌握叙事的主动权，在影像真实与否的疑问中传递超脱于一般电影语言所能给到的信息。色彩变化只为一束花，一个镜头特写只为纯粹的真实与烂漫。短暂的几帧画面把先前平整的叙事给打破，影像与现实进行互文，电影成为其收纳生活的艺术品
在停止写作后，小说家短暂失聪，语言系统化为身体符号靠手语得以表达。而静默中，书写的本质和拍摄的意义进行贯通。camera就是一支笔，从40分钟处，由作家+导演+演员彻底进入“小说家的电影”，当小说家极富魅力感且极度自由时，一部影片就轻盈地从镜头通道里生成。金敏喜松弛而放松，捧着小雏菊、狗尾巴草与树叶结合成的花束，她就是笑着漫步，随着两句“我爱你”和洪常秀一起进入彩色地带。这部洪导的自我剖析中，虚构不会阻碍真实从他建构的情境中发生。
要不是因为这个名字，都不想看洪常秀了。像他这样拍电影，一个月能拍六个。吃饭时过爆，捧花时虚焦……最低级的错误都没有人提了。片尾转彩色更是用烂了。
3.5。有些场景蛮意味深长的，比如聊创作焦虑的时候突然一个小女孩入画占据C位，比如金敏喜应该是不喜欢那部情意绵绵的短片……哦对了，短片里的那个我爱你的声音应该是导演本人吧？那就更有意思了……
退休状态的创作期，舒适得很。★★★/6.1
现实小说家的才智不是编一个精彩的故事，而是把最乏味的故事也能讲得引人入胜动人心弦，就像梵高画的那双旧鞋子，关键不在题材，而是艺术。这部电影不能说非常乏味，也是常规乏味。
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