Fear and Trembling
2:53 pm
Original Date posted: Tue, 12 October 2004 06:51:33
Post: I randomly stepped into my local art house cinema today after a social meeting that I had planned to attend, was not where I thought it was.
The film showing at that very moment, just about to begin, was: "Fear and Trembling" or Stupeur et tremblements as it is known in french. It is a film adaptation of the popular book with the same title.
This film is about differences in culture. Sadly the camera work, filming and screenplay are sub standard. The story and thought behind the writing is awe inspiring yet the movie is dull. Read the book and if you are interested in representations of japanese culture, watch the film as well.
Saying that, the film did have its moments and I enjoyed it in part.
5/10.
Post: I randomly stepped into my local art house cinema today after a social meeting that I had planned to attend, was not where I thought it was.
The film showing at that very moment, just about to begin, was: "Fear and Trembling" or Stupeur et tremblements as it is known in french. It is a film adaptation of the popular book with the same title.
Winner of the Grand Prix de I'Academie Francaise and the Prix Internet du Livre, this taut tour-de-force of a novel created a sensation in France, where it has sold nearly half a million copies. FEAR AND TREMBLING tells the story of Amelie, a young Western woman who spends a year working at a Japanese corporation. She soon learns that at the Yumimoto Corporation hierarchy means everything. Keep to your place and you survive; break ranks and you will be broken. The determined but hapless Amelie makes mistake after mistake, not least of which is deigning to sympathise with her immediate superior, the beautiful, effcient and ice-cold Miss Mori. A perverse process of ritual humiliation follows. But even as Amelie's life at the Yumimoto Corporation spirals inexorably and hilariously downward, what she learns about herself and her colleagues in this brilliant novel will alternately delight and outrage readers. Not since Marguerite Duras has a novelist so indelibly marked the difference between East and West, and with such seductive honesty.
This film is about differences in culture. Sadly the camera work, filming and screenplay are sub standard. The story and thought behind the writing is awe inspiring yet the movie is dull. Read the book and if you are interested in representations of japanese culture, watch the film as well.
Saying that, the film did have its moments and I enjoyed it in part.
5/10.
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