Antena

Year:2004

Duration:01:57:38

Directed by: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Actors: Megumi Asaoka, Makiko Emoto, Koji Enokido

Language: Japanese

Country: Japan

Also known as: Antenna

Description: Uichiro – graduate “explores the philosophical aspects of life on the basis of experience gained in sadomasochistic clubs. It has a case from the past that he can’t forget – the disappearance of the younger sister 15 years ago. It soon becomes apparent that his psychological condition and the tendency to perversion directly related to the missing sister.

All characters “Antenna” equal before the sense of tragic loss, and this feeling is different breaks them. With the departure of Mary the integrity of family life was violated. The power of this experience is that it does not release many years later. All efforts are struggling with a sense of loss, spending a lot of mental strength. The mother of the children has built up in his mind an imaginary world, where her daughter is alive and just moved into the body of a younger brother. Yuya decided that in his mind there is an antenna and put it all the concerns associated with the disappearance of Mary. And only Yuichiro were able to meet your own face-to-face, however, bringing himself to full intensity. He only raised the question not only about her but also about the pain of others. By and large, in his sado-masochistic Hobbies no, actually, no ecstasy of pain. It’s not fun jaded by life, and torture, which exposes himself to the ascetic, to feel alive. For Yuichiro razor burn on your body is an attempt to unravel the tragic riddle of the world. But one he couldn’t solve, it took him another man – Lady. Humiliating him according to his role, he brought him to a full physical and sexual exhaustion, and simultaneously purify his soul, Pomogi him a little bit to understand yourself. “Do you want to find Mary,” she says to him. “You just want all over.” We do not know how these words really helped Uichiro to reevaluate the past, but we can definitely say that in the past he began to look bolder.

“Antenna” – heavy existential film about the power of the past over the present, and that tragic event even happened a long time ago, may permanently break a person’s life. At the end of the movie there is a light hint of catharsis, but perhaps too easy to make the film really could be called therapeutic.

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