Silly premise all wrong: J-Police would NOT shoot/kill suspect

Completely right, dude. I just don´t know, I haven´t seen the film myself, but from what I´ve read, seen, heard about this, I guess is a kind of a metaphor or symbolic stuff about getting f*uck in the ass. But as what you said about it, kind of understand what you mean about the realism of the scen. So, I guess that was the point of the director, using that fantasy scene to get to the point of the scene. Because someone said to me, that the end when you see the dick penetrating the vagina is like an image trying to simulate that is f*ucking your head. A personal interpretation.

So, there you have it. Still, seems a great mise-en-scene filmmaking work.

P.S. Waiting for anybody to upload that piece of filmmaking, anyway.

Everything you said, Gaspar said during the Q&A. It is just a movie.

Oscar said he had a gun and was going to use it. Cop knew english and panicked. What more do you need to know?



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I often see these kinds of threads when a foreign director makes a film set in another country, and I'm always confused by them.

Do you think films set in America realistically portray American even half the time? Pretty much no police force in the world would just shoot down a person like that (okay maybe in some insane country, but no developed/civilized country).

The film wasn't about Japan, it was just set in Japan. And coincidently it made me really want to go to Tokyo.

I'm not even sure how a Japanese person could say ETV made Japan look bad. Look at the kind of films you guys export! Ichi the Killer?

@unamerican I agree with you about Jap cops. Gaspar Noe wrote the plot not thinking in Tokyo but any city, by the way he is from Argentina (and guess what the police can do in south america?), for many years Noe was working this movie and gathering the money for it.
Tokyo was the best location for the producers and for the FX ambient... the old and stinky pull-chain toilet a place in Buenos Aires the best location in Gaspar´s mind.
Independ film makers can do that and more... just for example the casting was done by Gaspar himself and the names of the characters are valid names in spanish in english and others languages "Oscar", "Victor", "Linda", "Alex" in fact the story could be set at any big city, the NYC from "Taxi Driver" or the "Cidade de Deus" from Brazil or the London from "A Clockwork Orange". There are not "Silly" cities but hardcore plots with all right premises: shooting at your senses.

this whole post is stupid. the cops shot because he said he was going to shoot. that's all that needs to be said. i didnt bother reading anything past the original post because that's what happened. to say it wouldn't is a lie..it can happen and it happened to oscar. the OP failed to realize what oscar screamed out moments before he died rendering this all very, very useless.

let the hate mail ride.



There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.

ye, such a shame with the rest of the movie entirely making sense.

"The Japanese are the one if not only culture we can trust NOT to lie, especially the police."

I'm sorry? We're talking about the culture who, to this day, denies their World War 2 war crimes and even censors/alters recounts of things like the Rape of Nanjing on a national educational level.

That line just stood out to me as being absurd. If anything, the Japanese are VERY good at lying. I don't know who else can continually stick their fingers in their years and scream 'it's not true' when everyone else in the world knows they're full of it.