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Sep. 7th, 2004 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI should have mentioned that this week, the employees are on vacation. As a result, I'll be pulling very long days. Sucks to be me.
I'm still trying to decide if Ichi the Killer is a comedy or not. I'm leaning toward 'comedy' despite (or perhaps because of) the bodycount, arterial spray, and entrail-draped abattoirs in the thing.
Ichi is filmed in glorious living color... not just the blood, though there is a lot of that and it's shot lovingly. But that's not all there is. Note also the entire wardrobe of Kakihara... from the purple pimp-daddy coat to the lime-green bib he uses when he cuts off his tongue. This is a colorful movie, a movie of lush eyefucks.
Much as I like it, though, this is not a top-notch film. It's a fairly low-budget, uneven yakuza film with a muddy, wandering plot. But... it has occasional flashes of brilliance AND it's linguistically interesting because the actors playing yakuza talk like yakuza. Isn't that nifty?
I think it's a comedy because it's funny, the same way that gross jokes were funny when I was fourteen. Gross jokes, you know. Like these: What's the difference between a truck full of dead babies and a truck full of bowling balls? You can't unload a truck full of bowling balls with a pitchfork. What's black and white and red all over and can't go through revolving doors? A nun with a spear through her head. If you can get that level of humor working for you, you are probably in the appropriate mindset to enjoy this film.
I'm still trying to decide if Ichi the Killer is a comedy or not. I'm leaning toward 'comedy' despite (or perhaps because of) the bodycount, arterial spray, and entrail-draped abattoirs in the thing.
Ichi is filmed in glorious living color... not just the blood, though there is a lot of that and it's shot lovingly. But that's not all there is. Note also the entire wardrobe of Kakihara... from the purple pimp-daddy coat to the lime-green bib he uses when he cuts off his tongue. This is a colorful movie, a movie of lush eyefucks.
Much as I like it, though, this is not a top-notch film. It's a fairly low-budget, uneven yakuza film with a muddy, wandering plot. But... it has occasional flashes of brilliance AND it's linguistically interesting because the actors playing yakuza talk like yakuza. Isn't that nifty?
I think it's a comedy because it's funny, the same way that gross jokes were funny when I was fourteen. Gross jokes, you know. Like these: What's the difference between a truck full of dead babies and a truck full of bowling balls? You can't unload a truck full of bowling balls with a pitchfork. What's black and white and red all over and can't go through revolving doors? A nun with a spear through her head. If you can get that level of humor working for you, you are probably in the appropriate mindset to enjoy this film.
