Bara no sōretsu
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Die Dragqueens Eddie und Leda buhlen um die Gunst des Nachtclubbesitzers und Dealers Gonda, der sich schließlich für Eddie entscheidet. Leda begeht Selbstmord. Eddie sehnt sich gleichzeitig nach ihrem Vater, der früh die Familie verlassen hatte. Sie ermordet ihre Mutter und deren Liebhaber um später festzustellen, dass ihr Liebhaber Gonda ihr Vater ist, der sich als er dies herausfindet umbringt. Der Film ist eine Interpretation der Ödipus-Sage, in Abwandlung zum Original liebt hier der Sohn den Vater. (Rapid Eye Movies)
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The film is so intertwined with the time of its creation, at least in a formal sense, that it is unnecessary to list all the cinematographic techniques of the second half of the 1960s that the film combines. However, it must be noted that it combines them skillfully and elegantly, a surprising fact for a feature debut. As for the film techniques, one could argue that the obvious inspiration from European and especially French art cinema is perhaps too apparent in a Japanese film. The content is wonderfully intertwined with the form, especially one of the central ideas concerning identity and sight: the LGBT characters, forced to rely on the mediation of sight to establish their own identity (it is their appearance and gaze that (does not) differentiate them from men), are constantly thrown into uncertainty and unreliability of the sense (the explaining scene on the observation tower), constantly aging, constantly resembling men despite make-up, and constantly losing their feminine mask - in short, constantly faced with the unreliability of what we are looking at and how. Essentially, the viewer is also faced with the same dilemma thanks to the use of destabilizing metafictional/quasi-documentary techniques that act as his/her sight.
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