The few adults in their lives are either ineffectual, clueless, or completely disconnected from their children, but their level of disconnect is pitched at such an absurd level (and played out so awkwardly) t hat it goes from be ing pitiable to idiotic. Hoshino forces another girl, Shiori (Yu Aoi) her to prostitute herself to businessmen, and Yoko is herself bullied ruthlessly by a girl clique, presumably because she's more popular than they are. At school he's bullied and harassed, and one of his former friends, Hoshino (Shugo Oshinari) evolves into his biggest nemesis, eventually enslaving both him and the girl Yuichi idolizes but cannot bring himself to open up to, Yoko (Ayumi Ito). Lily deals with Yuichi (Hayato Ichihara), a painfully withdrawn young man who consoles himself by maintaining a website about his favorite pop singer (the titular Lily). Yuichi staves off the loneliness of his days by devoting a web site to his favorite musician. If some films are dismissed as being cinematic masturbation, Lily probably qualifies as cinematic coitus interruptus. We're just looking at ugly behavior, like someone's morbid home movies. But the film is so abstruse and fragmented on every level it's nearly impossible to ascribe motives or experience any payoff.
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Like Blue Velvet, another psychically wounding movie that has been widely praised, Lily contains moments of such emotional rawness that it's not hard to see how it has garnered many staunch defenders. Lily is an ungainly, fractured, bewildering movie that despite its massive collection of characters and incidents and concepts winds up being about nothing much at all. The real shame of All About Lily Chou-Chou is that all of this energy and creative work has not produced a better film.
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He also included ingredients about the murder of a (also fictitious) Lily fan, from which he derived enough material through other people's feedback to create not only a novel but to update an old screenplay he'd written about the coming of age of two boys in modern Japan. Director Shunji Iwai created a web site devoted to a fictitious Bjork-like pop star and asked people to freely contribute material about her. By Serdar Yegulalp on 19:01:00 No commentsĪll About Lily Chou-Chou is one of those movies where the idea behind the movie is more interesting than anything in it.
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