2013/09/10

Ningen

Set in modern times, but based on old Japanese myths involving a fox and a raccoon (two tricksters whose adventures seem to be based on a series of competitions in which they both impersonate and toy with humans).

It's an interesting film, but the after-film Q&A proved to be the best part of the screening, as a number of odd events leading to the making of the film both echoed and enhanced the ideas of the fox and the raccoon myth (the directors filmed in a clinic which included two women who invented their own stories about the main characters. They ended up playing principal roles in the second act of the film).

Or, perhaps, it could be that the two co-directors were the fox and raccoon in human form and we were the subject of their latest game...

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