An Obsession (1997)
An Obsession (1997)
DVDRip | AVI | 672 x 384 | XviD @ 779 Kbps | 109 min | 700 Mb
Audio: Japanese MP3 @ 108 Kbps VBR | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Crime, Drama
DVDRip | AVI | 672 x 384 | XviD @ 779 Kbps | 109 min | 700 Mb
Audio: Japanese MP3 @ 108 Kbps VBR | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Police detective Sosuke has it pretty good. He likes his job, is best friends with his partner, and has a beautiful wife at home, who although an individualist, has always supported Sosuke in all his endeavors. Then, in a flash, someone takes all of that away. One evening when chasing the man who just assassinated a notorious cult leader, Sosuke is shot in the chest and left for dead. During the interim where he lays almost unconscious in a pool of his own blood and the time the ambulance arrives, someone steals his gun.
…Aoyama thus presents in An Obsession a message both personal and generationally relevant. But if one were to find fault with this film, the least strong of the four so far, it is precisely in its philosophically schematic nature. Aoyama has a strongly allegorical side–which is is often abstract and unrealistic. He is at his best when that tendency is tempered by the grim humanity of his characters. In An Obsession, however, symbols like the death squads stand out too much as symbols, conflicting in their nature with the realism of relationships like that of Saga and Rie. An Obsession being his first original screenplay since Helpless, one wonders if Aoyama wouldn't be better served working with stories or screenplays written by a third party (as in Chinpira and Wild Life) to help tone down the allegory, and work out his own cinematic contact with the Other.Excerpt from IMDB Review
An Obsession (1997)
