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Burning Bridges? No, just Yoshiwara
Dec. 30th, 2007 09:39 amI was a bit surprised last night. Mitsuko was flipping through the channels on the TV, and suddenly stopped, and said, "OH! That's Oiran! I want to watch that." Apparently a new version of an old favorite, it was a bit of a historical dramatization about the prostitutes in old Edo (Tokyo). 吉原炎上 yoshiwara enjou - The Holocaust of Yoshiwara?
So after two hours plus of unresolved details, we get a fire. Then we get maybe one minute of her walking into her childhood friend's home out in the country. Flattens herself on the floor, apologizing, saying she didn't know where else to go. And her friend (a man) says it's been a long time, you've worked hard, and walks around to embrace her.
Curtain!
I suppose the implication is that having run everyone out of the district due to fire, they can escape back to the country. But talk about short-cutting an ending! And am I supposed to believe that having gone through this really insane sexual concentration camp life, she can just walk back into normal life?
History, right? So the little quirks of fictional completion and resolution don't hold, eh?
So after two hours plus of unresolved details, we get a fire. Then we get maybe one minute of her walking into her childhood friend's home out in the country. Flattens herself on the floor, apologizing, saying she didn't know where else to go. And her friend (a man) says it's been a long time, you've worked hard, and walks around to embrace her.
Curtain!
I suppose the implication is that having run everyone out of the district due to fire, they can escape back to the country. But talk about short-cutting an ending! And am I supposed to believe that having gone through this really insane sexual concentration camp life, she can just walk back into normal life?
History, right? So the little quirks of fictional completion and resolution don't hold, eh?
