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Monday, 18 July 2011
Hebi ni Pierce (2008)
Monday, 18 July 2011 10:30 pm
I learned about this movie when Yoshitaka Yuriko was the guest in Himitsu no Arashi-chan. I looked for it online and found it quite interesting so I downloaded it. It did take me a long time before I got to watch it though: one, because I know it's such a heavy story and I was mentally preparing myself for it; and two, because I asked a friend of mine who's actually majoring in Film and she said she didn't like it that much.
So anyway since I needed to delete some videos in my hard drive, I just decided to watch it.
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Hebi ni Pierce (or Snakes and Earrings) is mainly about Lui (Yoshitaka Yuriko), a beautiful 19-year old girl who got fascinated with piercings and tattoos (and other body modifications) when she met Ama (Kora Kengo) in a bar. They hit it off the moment they met and well, things happened and they decided to live together. Since Lui was really interested in Ama's slit tongue, Ama introduced her to Shiba (ARATA), this tattoo artist and body modification guy.
It talks of darkness, of dying, of negativity. It had a lot of sadistic and masochistic moments. Among the three characters, it was Ama whom I loved the most. He's a perfect example of not judging a book by its cover. He's loving, has a cheerful and pleasing personality, but he too has times when he couldn't control himself and actually killed a person. But then again, he was that little ray of sunshine, that spark of hope this story needs. It really pained me to see how much he's doing for Lui but she's too engrossed in her dark little world that she didn't take notice of him anymore.
The story was too much for me to handle, but I couldn't stop watching it. I guess it only shows the darkness that everyone is actually facing in their lives. Not all of us have problems and issues as heavy as the ones shown in the movie, but in one way or another I think people can actually relate to the characters, whom I think are examples of different kinds of people, shown with much exaggeration.
The thing with Hebi ni Pierce is that it was really too heavy-a-drama for me. It was seriously like entering a whole new world, full of unexpected situations and unimaginable scenarios. I knew about these issues but I never really thought things like this happen. I think I've lived too much within the comforts of stability... but honestly these kinds of things, although substantial and good that I actually got to learn about them, are best to be left at that.
It is a good film though, but I don't think I'd be able to watch it again.
Rating: 7.7
So anyway since I needed to delete some videos in my hard drive, I just decided to watch it.
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Hebi ni Pierce (or Snakes and Earrings) is mainly about Lui (Yoshitaka Yuriko), a beautiful 19-year old girl who got fascinated with piercings and tattoos (and other body modifications) when she met Ama (Kora Kengo) in a bar. They hit it off the moment they met and well, things happened and they decided to live together. Since Lui was really interested in Ama's slit tongue, Ama introduced her to Shiba (ARATA), this tattoo artist and body modification guy.
It talks of darkness, of dying, of negativity. It had a lot of sadistic and masochistic moments. Among the three characters, it was Ama whom I loved the most. He's a perfect example of not judging a book by its cover. He's loving, has a cheerful and pleasing personality, but he too has times when he couldn't control himself and actually killed a person. But then again, he was that little ray of sunshine, that spark of hope this story needs. It really pained me to see how much he's doing for Lui but she's too engrossed in her dark little world that she didn't take notice of him anymore.
The story was too much for me to handle, but I couldn't stop watching it. I guess it only shows the darkness that everyone is actually facing in their lives. Not all of us have problems and issues as heavy as the ones shown in the movie, but in one way or another I think people can actually relate to the characters, whom I think are examples of different kinds of people, shown with much exaggeration.
The thing with Hebi ni Pierce is that it was really too heavy-a-drama for me. It was seriously like entering a whole new world, full of unexpected situations and unimaginable scenarios. I knew about these issues but I never really thought things like this happen. I think I've lived too much within the comforts of stability... but honestly these kinds of things, although substantial and good that I actually got to learn about them, are best to be left at that.
It is a good film though, but I don't think I'd be able to watch it again.
Rating: 7.7