I thought you may enjoy Japan's reflection of their own societal drop outs.
[Japan's a different world, to be certain, but not entirely divorced from the same planet on which Ash goes about Ashing. Eiji being Eiji is far removed from even a fairly mild if depressing take on those with no place in the proper and model society, but such lightness and darkness exist near enough to almost everyone's lives, if they look.
Eiji didn't look, in Blanca's Private Opinion. He looked away. Most of Japan did; it was a part of his training, on the Japanese psyche. This particular movie had slightly romanticized, allowed for sympathy for such folk, but the Japanese did not do stories of Ranbos or unlikely heroes defeating society. The eventual necessity to either bleed into the system and play one's role, or to bleed out and simply die, was as ever present as it was in more gristly films such as Clockwork Orange or Fight Club, perhaps with more understatement; and therefore, more forgiveness.
Eiji would, if separated from Ash, ultimately 'grow' towards normal, if forever sad for his loss of love.]
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[Japan's a different world, to be certain, but not entirely divorced from the same planet on which Ash goes about Ashing. Eiji being Eiji is far removed from even a fairly mild if depressing take on those with no place in the proper and model society, but such lightness and darkness exist near enough to almost everyone's lives, if they look.
Eiji didn't look, in Blanca's Private Opinion. He looked away. Most of Japan did; it was a part of his training, on the Japanese psyche. This particular movie had slightly romanticized, allowed for sympathy for such folk, but the Japanese did not do stories of Ranbos or unlikely heroes defeating society. The eventual necessity to either bleed into the system and play one's role, or to bleed out and simply die, was as ever present as it was in more gristly films such as Clockwork Orange or Fight Club, perhaps with more understatement; and therefore, more forgiveness.
Eiji would, if separated from Ash, ultimately 'grow' towards normal, if forever sad for his loss of love.]