This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here.
Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes)
This movie was not what I expected it to be. And I actually expected it to be extremely strange. Luckily it wasn't as strange as I thought, although certainly nothing ordinary. I say luckily because I wouldn't want this movie to be anything other than what it is.
The film perfectly pulls your around as you experience the confusion and frustrations of the character. Sometimes you can see things coming before he does. Sometimes you think you know what's coming. Your hopes are often dashed, until the shocking ending. Until you consider it all and realize the shock makes total sense.
It's an amazing film about the relativity of our situations in life. Put in a different context your entire outlook and even goals can change. I think it's an important movie for being able to look into the lives of other people who we cannot seem to comprehend how they could live and believe certain things. It's the whole genes vs. environment thing. Yes there are certain things about our personality that would never change, but it's amazing at how much we can adapt to any situation that we never thought we could if necessary.
I thought about this movie a lot after I saw it. And I've been thinking a lot about it again as I wanted to make this little blog entry. The more I think about it, the more amazing it becomes. I'm rating this movie a 9, but I have the feeling that after another viewing it could go up to a 10.
Rating: 9/10