Don't get me wrong, folks. I LOVE the slow moving Japanese dramas we have been having, like Love Letters, Nabbies Love, Falling into the Evening, and the one about the jail-bird turned hairdresser (forgotten the name).
Like these, this film is slow moving, but here there is nothing to touch the heart. Don't young Japanese deaf people constantly chatter in sign language like their counterparts everywhere else? The young hearing-impaired people I have encountered are not blocks of wood as these two are. Regrettably, I watched the 90 minutes of their vacuous stares punctuated by surfing shots in case there was some point to it, but there wasn't. (Oops! Does that count as a spoiler?)
Not only is it boring, but the movie is so badly cut that one can't follow what little story there is.
Maybe this is really just a surf movie, with minimal story inserted between the lengthy surfing shots. As a movie with lots of surfing it is fine. If you want anything else, forget it.
Like these, this film is slow moving, but here there is nothing to touch the heart. Don't young Japanese deaf people constantly chatter in sign language like their counterparts everywhere else? The young hearing-impaired people I have encountered are not blocks of wood as these two are. Regrettably, I watched the 90 minutes of their vacuous stares punctuated by surfing shots in case there was some point to it, but there wasn't. (Oops! Does that count as a spoiler?)
Not only is it boring, but the movie is so badly cut that one can't follow what little story there is.
Maybe this is really just a surf movie, with minimal story inserted between the lengthy surfing shots. As a movie with lots of surfing it is fine. If you want anything else, forget it.