11/30/2011

November 29

Today I went to the cinema, to a movie called 'The Ballad of Narayama'. It's a Japanese movie about a small village where people have to die when they are 70.

The movie was terrible, and with that very interesting. In one scene there is a man who fucks a dog, and in another scene a whole family is being buried alive. This film is brutal! Next to that, the volume of the music was ridiculously loud so that I had to sit with my fingers in my ears through the whole movie (at some points I took them out to hear the actual volume: the sound penetrated my ears painfully).

But I really liked it, maybe because of it's weirdness. The last scenes on the mountain were very touching.