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The Shortest Distance Is Round japanese drama review
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The Shortest Distance Is Round
2 people found this review helpful
by Mil
Jun 29, 2021
Completed
Overall 2.0
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 3.0
Music 2.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

Welcome to shock value festival

If I had to describe this movie with a single serious word: muddy, it is a clear indiscriminate use of shock value in excess and without meaning.

There are many stories with strong scenes and it is understood because they contribute something to the plot, that is, they play a role within the story that you are telling and establish a part of the universe that you are creating, this film is a huge nonsense, the plot lacks of meaning and it's just a collection of tacky soft porn.

I understand, that they try to represent the world of prostitution, with decadence and violence, but the point is that no scene is there to encourage us to understand the characters, we do not know anything about them and beyond what they do with their bodies do not are relevant, I'm not the type of person to condemn any kind of movie, but I can hardly see that this is a movie since it lacks the most essential of one: plot and development.

And I'm not saying that they can't make a production that includes these types of themes or scenes if you want, that's fine, but at least, make it matter, a 6min scene of sex with a character whose name we don't even know, which is just an extra, which will never matter again and from which the protagonist does not learn or get anything at all.

Nor do I have anything against representing couples with toxic or illegal or immoral (as a teacher-student) behaviors in the entertainment media that's fine, the cinema lends itself to telling any story as long as nobody's rights are violated, but we have the same, this relationship does not contribute anything, there is no criticism or a message or something that can be taken from any of the relationships in this series.

And well, what happens at the end, as I said is nothing more than an endless shock value festival, it was never intended to tell a story and with all the resources that the cinema makes available to create, it makes me sad that there are productions like this, I hope they would worry about creating less morb and more stories that are worthwhile, because that way they could see that one thing does not contradict the other, the difference is that morbid by itself is not a story.

I don't have much to say about the performances, the truth is that it seems that the director was directing some kind of porn, and I don't want to underestimate the work of the actors, maybe they are very good at acting, unfortunately here they didn't have something with it to work.

I don't even want to remember that I saw this and if you want to see it ahead I am nobody to say whether you should do it or not, but I do recommend that you take it easy yes it contains sensitive images and is clearly not appropriate for all ages.
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