Sekai good morning! (世界 グッド モーニング!, Good Morning to the World!). Director, subject, screenplay, production : Hirohara Satoru; interpreters : Yoichi Koizumi ō , Arai Miho; duration: 81 '; 2010 - 61th Berlin International Film Festival
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score ★ 1 / 2
Hirohara Satoru, 24, just graduated from the Musashino Art University, made his debut with this film and immediately wins the "Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema "Vancouver International Film Festival of 2010, as well as a special jury prize at the Pia Film Festival in Tokyo.
His film explores the world of the feelings of adolescence. It 's the story of Yuta, a boy of 16 who lives with his mother, always very busy, in a small apartment in the suburbs of Tokyo. Its existence is lonely in a world that he creates in his room, giving names to objects invented by his imagination. On the way to school in a tunnel to travel, often Yuta meets a homeless man, who one day steals your bag. The next day the man is found dead. And 'the turning point: the boy decides to go looking for the family of the deceased. And will do so by any means, searching for traces of the things of man, beginning a journey in the life of another person, allowing him to finally open up the world around him.
This is an almost amateurish, sometimes all too symbolic and didactic, that linger in a slow narrative minimalism, and that one can hardly think will be distributed in commercial channels, but in any event attracts inspiration and courage gives hope about the promising young talents of the director.
Yuta (who has the innocent face and staring Yoichi Koizumi ō ), moves in a lonely world full of objects stacked in bulk. His messy room, or the very small room / kitchen he shares with his mother and un'ispida cactus plant that represents it well, or even the apartment of a girl he meets in his "journey" to rebuild history 's homeless of the tunnel, each frame the "locked up" in an orgy of waste and disorder, which is profoundly alone.
The world of adolescent feelings, they said. But not only.
outset the director works to build and propose ideas for a debate that seems to extend to the entire society from the world of adolescence: the earliest images Yuta pauses to flick through a porno magazine he found abandoned in soil, and immediately after, with classmates at school, it is called death (for a suicide partner); Finally, the mother comes home and crashes literally on the kitchen table, overcome with fatigue from overwork. Sex, death, chronic fatigue from over-work. Now there, a reminder of the society in which the boy moves, such as anxieties, wishes, chains.
From there on, the film unfolds as a process of training adolescent who, accompanied, as in any "training trip" worthy of respect, from a mentor (a musician who failed - could not do ... another in a work so didactic - he earns a living recycling scrap and waste), will succeed eventually, not so much in his attempt to find traces of the dead man, but rather to "open up" to the world of human relations, the first major step in the growth process.
Symbolically the boy does that enter and exit a metaphorical tunnel until the final, liberating, in which he finds himself running up a huge lawn where we are raising some balloons in flight. The final sequence takes over the top, the camera moves away while the boy is finally moving in a space without limits, without the "objects" / fears that encumber its growth. On the horizon we can see the outline (reassuring? Blessing ...?) Of Mount Fuji.
interesting ideas and a young director to watch for the future. [CB - 61th Berlin International Film Festival - February 2011]
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