{"id":639218,"date":"2024-09-23T02:53:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T23:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-coolly-poignant-surveillance-era-allegory\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T02:53:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T23:53:21","slug":"watch-a-coolly-poignant-surveillance-era-allegory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-coolly-poignant-surveillance-era-allegory\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Coolly Poignant Surveillance-Era Allegory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df6b655107\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df6b655107\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-coolly-poignant-surveillance-era-allegory\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Coolly_Poignant_Surveillance-Era_Allegory%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Coolly Poignant Surveillance-Era Allegory&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-coolly-poignant-surveillance-era-allegory\/#%E2%80%9CA_Coolly_Poignant_Surveillance-Era_Allegory%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Coolly Poignant Surveillance-Era Allegory&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Coolly_Poignant_Surveillance-Era_Allegory%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Coolly Poignant Surveillance-Era Allegory&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Coolly_Poignant_Surveillance-Era_Allegory%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Coolly Poignant Surveillance-Era Allegory&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Japanese director Neo Sora is no catastrophist: the vision of dystopia he puts forth in his coolly compelling first fiction feature \u201cH<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>yend\u201d is chilling precisely because it won\u2019t take some thunderous armageddon to bring it about. Instead, in a near future that\u2019s barely a stone\u2019s throw from now, beset by many of our present predicaments and a sense of impending but not quite imminent apocalypse, his teenage heroes come of age as kids have always done. It\u2019s just that here, there is the added poignancy of experiencing the end of the beginning of life amid what might just be the beginning of the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In tomorrow\u2019s Tokyo, where the concrete curves and high-rise skylines have a slightly denatured air (perhaps because the film was largely shot in Kobe) a high-school principal (Shiro Sano) is distressed to discover his beloved sports car has overnight been set on its rear bumper, and now stands like a splashy yellow monolith in middle of the gray school courtyard. Students gape at it in wonder \u2014 slap Banksy\u2019s name on it and you could call it art \u2014 but this juvenile prank, revealed to us in one of DP Bill Kerstein\u2019s graceful, self-possessed tracking shots, is swiftly declared an act of \u201cterrorism\u201d and becomes the pretext for the installation of a draconian surveillance system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The whole student body are thus to be punished for the actions of just a few. As to who the few might be, suspicion im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely falls \u2014 and not without good reason \u2014 on a gang of genially rowdy final-year teens, whose ringleaders Kou (Yukito Hidaki) and Yuta (Hayao Kurihara) have been best friends since childhood. Along with Tomu (Arazi), Ming (Shina Peng) and Ata-chan (Yuta Hayashi) they form a tight-knit crew who share a love of underground music, and revel in the comparative freedom offered by the school\u2019s equipment-stuffed music room, which they regard as their rightful territory and base of operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As befits the son of the late Ryuichi Sakamoto (and director of acclaimed documentary \u201cRyuichi Sakamoto: Opus\u201d) Sora displays a subtly fervent faith in music as perhaps the ultimate expression of nascent individuality, and therefore, ever and eternally, a threat to regimes that rely on conformity and obedience. Early on, Kou and Yuta gatecrash a techno club (using the tried-and-tested analog method of sneaking in the back) only for the place to be raided by the police. Afterwards, in the confusion, the DJ they idolize slips the boys the rest of his set on a thumb drive, and it\u2019s like he\u2019s entrusting to them the duty of keeping the thumping beat of youth-culture resistance alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That\u2019s a project that doesn\u2019t much interest privileged rebel-without-a-cause Yuta as, under the ebbs and swells of Lia Ouyang Rusli\u2019s superb score \u2014 monumental electro one moment, softest piano the next, never overbearingly deployed \u2014 Sora gradually narrows the focus of his own all-seeing-eye onto the bond between him and the more thoughtful Kou. Coming from a family of undocumented immigrant Koreans, Kou has a lot more to lose from any run-ins with the authorities than his cosseted BFF, but it\u2019s not just the difference in their social status that begins to tease them apart. Kou also develops a crush on Fumi (Inori Kilala), a quiet, studious girl in his year (\u201cYou read books on paper?\u201d he asks her incredulously)\u00a0who hangs with an activist group that knows how to channel youthful disaffection into actual political protest. Kou gets involved and enjoys an awakening while Yuta., the more obviously rebellious kid proves ultimately to be the more timid. Everyone\u2019s changing and Yuta secretly longs for things to stay the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This is a very near future, so little explanation is needed of so-far uninvented tech or unfamiliar language and customs. Instead, Sora\u2019s clean-lined screenplay sketches a world that looks a lot like ours, only with the screws a little tightened. Cellphones are ubiquitous, but used as tracking devices; faces are as fingerprints, and once snapped by a passing cop, all your details appear at the tap of a touchscreen. But he also offsets the techno-paranoid doom-and-gloom by crisply noting the heartening irony that the very tech that dictatorial regimes will lever to suppress youthful exuberance will always be better understood by the youth than by their aging oppressors. No matter the bouncers, the underage will always find a back door through which to sneak. This underlying faith that the kids are gonna be alright, as well as a sweet, simple sadness for the people we lose on the way to becoming the people we\u2019re going to be, means there\u2019s a certain naivet\u00e9 to \u201cHappyend.\u201d But maybe naive is exactly what we need, when you consider what all this sophistication has done for us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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