Throw Away Your Books Get Out onto the Streets

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Petros T @PetrosTserpelis 06/28/2022 A few interesting shots aside, it's a chore to sit through, a random mess with a fuck-ton of grating jumpcuts and no cohesion. It alternates between making no sense and beating you over the head with simplistic ideas and the most blatant exposition ever. Filming a photo of the characters and narrating who's who? The protagonist literally running away from his house and shouting his family issues at the top of his lungs? Oh look, an American flag and a Coca Cola bottle, imperialism's bad, mm'kay? See more 03/13/2015 ?? ???? ??????? ???? ????? " ???????? ????????? " :) See more 07/31/2011 You could easily dismiss "Throw Away Your Books" at first sight, as nothing more than a product of 60s counter culture. The thing is, the movie resonates still to this day, and many things easily apply to any culture, not just modern Japan. Sexual relations, friendship, family, everything is either a joke, a charade or just never a honest thing. It's a honest reflexion on the frustrations of not only young people, but people from any age group. Even when the movie starts going heavily into "performance" mode it doesn't sabotage the entire thing. See more 12/11/2010 I really hesitate to jump to any conclusions when it comes to cemented greatness, especially because I have only just seen this film for the first time. But let me say that Shuji Terayama is one of my favorite filmmakers. This is the best film I have seen by him, and quite possibly one of the best films I have ever seen period. This is a work of extreme power and beauty. Its themes of disillusionment, coming of age, anarchy and the failure of dreams are so universal and powerful, that despite the specificity of the Japanese New Wave and late 1960's counter culture that influenced them, the work still resonates with a intensity and intelligence only shared by the greatest of films (Malick's "The Tree of Life", Bergman's "Persona", and Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain" come to mind, among others.) It is one of those works of art that seems to understand the human condition, what it means to exist and the entire scope of this existence. I am so profoundly moved by this work and by Teryama in general, and cannot wait to re-examine this film. Genius near unparalleled. See more 06/13/2009 Novelistic story of a young man on a soccer team who has a dysfunctional family, intercut with a liberal amount of vignettes that vary in content, length and quality; "Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets" defies description as it boldly breaks the laws of cinema. Experimentation is conducted, the wilder the better. Green-tinted flashbacks, purple fantasies, musical interludes, subliminal editing, daring sequences with the actors acting strangely in public (a la "Borat"), wanton disregard for three-act structure or basic necessities like the Fourth Wall. With its Dostoevskian number of characters obsessed with the state of Japan circa 1971, and the overall varying successes of its myriad cinematic experiments, "TAYB, RitS" might be a trying viewing experience for those not in the right state of mind for it. Overall, its a bumpy and kind of overlong ride, but well worth it for the cumulative effect. While the concluding speech (with the tableau of assembled film crew) goes on for an Onanistic length, the film finally ends with what are without a doubt the greatest ending credits ever. Very much interested to check out more of Shuji Terayama's work, but it seems to be hard to come across in the States. See more 05/31/2008 Excellent. Shuji Terayama is a complete master when it comes to color. An amazing film about a dysfunctional family dealing with elements of alienation and social activism. The whole segment about the little girl and her rabbit was truly haunting. This is probably the best film I have ever seen. See more Read all reviews

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