If you want to BECOME bored... (spoiler alert?)

Rating: 1/10 (21 February 2004)

I just watched this film, and I asked myself: What was the MESSAGE? What was it that every critic in the Swedish movie magazines saw or heard that I didn't see or hear? This movie amounts to NOTHING! It's just a movie about a middle-aged man and a young girl who are very bored in Tokyo, so half an hour into the movie they decide to go out and do something together (the first 30 minutes could've just been cut away if you ask me! This should've been a TV movie...).
So, they go out and party, meet a couple of times, but the middle-aged man - who is having a tough time with his wife at home who constantly reminds him how much his children miss him and stuff - knows just how old he is and thus do not attempt to score with the young woman.
When they're done partying after a few days, it's just "good-bye forever". So to sum it up: There is no POINT in the plot, there is a minimum of (and an embarrasingly bad written) dialogue, and the milleu is not THAT beautiful, although the movie makers seem to want to give the audience that impression, since there are a lot of scenes with people just walking around in Japan.
I watched this during the mid-day in my home, without any company and I was quite tired and bored. This movie is already boring, and I was glad I didn't have a hangover, because this movies pace would've made me throw up. So, for what kind of situation was this movie made? My guess is in my one-line summary: It is a movie for times when you want to BECOME bored. And how often do you want that? Exactly. A totally pointless movie, and I wish I hadn't wasted a bit of my precious lifetime by watching it. I can recommend to all you who read this to NOT go see this movie. Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart.

Johan Rydén

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