The Red Spectacles

Near-future dystopian neo-noir, like "Alphaville: The Manga" as imagined by Raul Ruiz. OR Robocop in the Bardo Thodol Words fail me. Mecha-police robotic squad gives way to spy-movie sixties imagery, an ABCDEDCBA + (epilogue) narrative structure with a character…

Lencho of the Apes

"This is an allegory." Extremely not at all what I was expecting. The premise is all about police brutality and state-sanctioned violence: in a dystopian near-future, Japan establishes a special investigation unit in the Metropolitan Police tasked with combating the spike…

ScreeningNotes

“I wonder if people rot because towns rot or towns rot because people rot.”Well this certainly was something. The first movie in the Kerberos saga (followed by two prequels with one of them being the beloved anime classic Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade) is a visually creative…

Kaijuman

I really really thought it was going to be an anime when I played it, nope haha. Good film but it was too cringe 😬

Gildelfin

The Red Spectacles was a lot of fun, and really enhanced by a big screen viewing. Directed by Mamoru Oshii, probably most known for Ghost In The Shell, there were certainly times I felt like I was watching a live action anime. There’s also (thanks to using some stark black…

ABrungardt

YouTube-Tage die Zweite (2/2) Was auf dem ersten Blick wie die Realverfilmung von „Jin-Roh“ wirkt und durchaus auch Parallelen besitzt, was die Dystopie und das düstere Farbspiel anbelangt, ist „The Red Spectacles“ jedoch ein Film gepickt mit durchaus (zu) langen Dialogen…

19oldboy91

high modernism conceived as a failure of communication, noir-as-dissonance-as-such, the inherent subjectivity of time, and, naturally, tons of tech-gnosticism. extremely funny and jovial which is atypical for oshii, entirely focused on flat texture and the malleable…

comrade_yui

Incredible movie. Never knew what i was going to see next. Incredibly rich. Wanted to rewatch it as soon as it was over. The slapstick shouldn't vibe with everything else happening here (and there's a LOT happening here) but it does. Moreso, it feels integral. The early…

Trevor Henderson

What's singular about Mamoru Oshii isn't just his tremendous skill as a director. It's that he's a great artist in ways which, considered together, point toward what makes a filmmaker great in the first place: - He is, without a doubt, one of the most experimental stylists…

Post1000Tension