Product: Hiroshima mon amour [VHS] (1960)
Rating: 3.0
Riva Rocks (Hi)Roshima
For a controversial movie of its time, it is very understandable happening a couple decades right after world war II. Though an audience of today would ever question how and why there was any potential shock in Emmanauelle Riva's 'Hiroshima Mon Amour, it would have to be of the same reaction watching the movie V for Vendetta(or reading the graphic novel). Both movies have an artform of its time that give a message to its contemporary audience questioning its society and government. Watching either of these movies twenty years down the line gives the feeling of what was happening during those times.I genuinely liked the movie. The first shock comes from the beginning when it is revealed the French woman is making love to a Japanese man. From an audience, or spectator's point of view, you never see it coming. To have a woman flashing back to her first visit in Hiroshima, while a Japanese man is telling her in French that the events of Hiroshima at that time never existed is a catchy start. There was a lot happening that caught me off guard when the Japanese man was revealed. I begin to lose interest when she is at the pub. I understand it may seem heartless as she is bearing her soul while chugging down beers, but I thought she was getting too crazy. When she goes off telling him about the prison she gets locked in, she makes herself really gruesome and unappealing. It must have been a turnoff for the guy to keep hearing about her first love even though he really was interested.