Great concept but it keeps choosing to emphasize the least exciting aspects of it. Give me a version that dispatches with the face off in the graveyard in the first 30 minutes and then spends an hour building up to and executing the SS onslaught.
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
Words, abstraction, preceded the body for Yukio Mishima, as he confesses early on in what is undeniably Paul Schrader’s masterpiece. The lasting chasm between the two haunts him all his life, until at last he decides that violent self-actualization is the only way to close the gap. However ridiculous this may seem in practice or in theory — the difference itself a point of tension — the film sympathizes with his desire. And so absent a more complete picture of Mishima’s politics, or the social context in which they existed in Japan, we are left with only a searing portrait of one man’s singular longing.
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