Cinema art at its best

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2004)

Many years ago, I took an English Lit class in college and one of the assignments was to read and discuss Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", the book could be interpreted in so many ways as an indictment of our mental health system, the asylum as a microcosm of society, a commentary of authoritarianism etc. This movie is just like that, is it a social documentary of Japanese society, a commentary about relationships in modern society, a love story, a comedy. This film is all of the above. A wonderful film that is both complex and simple, funny but sad, brilliant film making. Sofia has made her dad very proud. Kudos to Bill and Scarlett. 9/10.