Flowers Of Evil es la adaptación live action del manga de Shuzo Oshimi "Aku no Hana" o conocido en esta parte del mundo como "Las flores del mal." Anteriormente en 2013 tuvo una adaptación al anime de la mano del director Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushishi, Detroit Metal City, etc) que fue polémica en su momento por lo experimental de su animación, entre otras cosas.

Creo que no exagero al decir que Aku no Hana es una de mis obras favoritas en el mundo del manga y el anime, por lo que me sentía algo nervioso por esta nueva versión del manga de Oshimi, y en general..no sé como sentirme con respecto a esta película.

La cinta logra alcanzar el final del…

Let's start this review by saying that Aku No Hana has been one of my favourite anime series since the moment I watched it a couple of years ago. Its disturbing atmosphere, accentuated by its glorious rotoscopic animation and its wonderful soundtrack (especially the greatest and creepiest ending theme of all time, A Last Flower), its combination of deep psychological subjects, its hentai-ness, Baudelaire's poetry and its cast with some of the deepest characters ever, especially my girl Sawa Nakamura, make it one of the most unique pieces of art of all time, and it's not far from something Sion Sono, my favourite filmmaker, would come up with.

That being said let's get this out of the way, this live…

The opening card calls it 思春期, puberty, and dedicates the film to all the boys and girls suffering from it, but this went much deeper than just puberty, and it's not the first time i've seen what is really a story about teenage depression sold with a label of puberty or more adventurous, tangentially related terms like 中二病 and the like that sort of romanticize or obfuscate the topic to win a hopefully receptive young audience.
Like all the best films diving into this swamp of teenage despair though, this shows both a way out, a step back onto solid ground, but also a possible failure, a succumbing to the illness. And despite the clear mission statement at the start,…

Apesar de duas horas de filme (e em vários momentos é algo monótono ou chato de acompanhar) dá pra considerar que foi muito apressado. Nenhum dos personagens ganha profundidade, realmente parece não dar tempo deles se conhecerem a ponto de ter uma conexão verdadeira, desse modo fica tudo muito estranho, nenhuma das ações ou decisões faz sentido já que parece que são todos desconhecidos ou só muito emocionados.

Um dorama ou uma sequência de dois filmes talvez desse mais espaço pra adaptar melhor, mas tenho a sensação de que não adiantaria, nenhuma adaptação parece ser capaz de alcançar a intensidade que o mangá alcançou.

Isso é até básico, mas a aparência dos atores incomoda um pouco, Nakamura parece ter 30…

Starting with the fact that "Aku no hana" is the second adaptation of the manga of the same name, its first adaptation was a 13-episode anime (already reviewed) that only covered the first third of the story and was later canceled due to poor reception. as animation and slow rhythm.

As a film independent of being an adaptation, the story unfolds in a non-linear way, but with a lack of meaning for the changes of time, with no purpose other than the narrative and not a truly emotional development of the characters. The fast pace makes us not really get involved with the characters, creating an antipathy for them. The performances go from good to decent in most cases, but…

I always find it difficult to accurately judge live action manga adaptations of things I've read. It's not quite the same as going to see a movie based on a book, where the mediums are different enough where it's obvious that some ways of adapting a plot to the screen work or don't, or at least on a personal level it's easy to figure out which parts met your expectations versus disappointed you. With manga, however, the medium is already a visual one and certain scenes will inevitably linger in your mind. So it can be surreal to see those scenes merely become 3D, sometimes even mimicking the frames of the original, and often I'm found wondering what the point…

The opening card calls it 思春期, puberty, and dedicates the film to all the boys and girls suffering from it, but this went much deeper than just puberty, and it's not the first time i've seen what is really a story about teenage depression sold with a label of puberty or more adventurous, tangentially related terms like 中二病 and the like that sort of romanticize or obfuscate the topic to win a hopefully receptive young audience.
Like all the best films diving into this swamp of teenage despair though, this shows both a way out, a step back onto solid ground, but also a possible failure, a succumbing to the illness. And despite the clear mission statement at the start,…