Fish Story

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Audience Member I don’t typically enjoy when a movie makes me feel confused and disoriented. It seems that’s exactly how Fish Story is intended to make you feel, because there is a lack of any flow to the plot. The entire film is constructed more like a series of short films with a few crossover references between them. Also, instead of giving you a step-by-step walk through time we bounce around to a number of different time periods with little to no connection between them. It felt so disjointed and strange, but there was enough going on in each stop along the way that I was at least interested to see where it would all lead. The more I clung to the expectation that things would come together, the less I could see how it was possible. Then the climax arrived, and to my surprise, pieces started to fall into place. It was like I had been staring at one of those magic-eye pictures and suddenly the hidden image was revealed. It’s hard to express how satisfying it is when a film is able to pull off a shift as dramatic as the one in Fish Story. At first I was chuckling at the film because it felt so loosely held together. In fact, I told my wife how it all ended, and the complex series of events we see outlined in the climax sounded like gobbledy-gook to her. That’s when I realized I kind of loved it. It’s utterly ridiculous in concept, but I didn’t mind at all. In fact, I kind of wish they had cut back a little on how much they walked us through the entire story at the end. At that point my brain had pieced together almost everything, and it would have been cool if the writer and director had trusted us to connect all the dots. I suppose the explanation sequence takes away any ambiguity, and it’s hard to complain about that. Now that I’ve had a couple days to sleep on it, I’m liking Fish Story more and more. It’s an odd movie, but one that totally worked for me. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/26/20 Full Review Audience Member Excellent screenplay Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/18 Full Review Audience Member Movie was dope and the song was great. One of those movies that really ties everything up nicely at the end too. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Like a puzzle, you need to be focus a lot in the movie, of every detail, funny moments and a lot of intertext Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Second film from Kotaro Isaka's novel - directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura that I watched. Gotta say it's less thrilling than Ahiru to Kamo, but equally fun and intriguing. Every part woven nicely and scored really good as well. And gotta love the supposedly moral of the story that no matter how obscure your music is, though your generation failed you, there will be someone from other generation, it probably decades beyond, that will listen to you. Your music will DO reach people someday Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Excellent! Got to admit, my attention started to waver in the last part as I just couldn't figure out what all the stories had to do with each other. The song is pretty cool and I managed to stick it out to the end. Glad I did. Wow, did not see all those tie ins coming right at the end when I thought the movie was actually over. I loved the story of the book being a scam too, yet all that impact. Awesome. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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