Synopsis
A high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a chain of events that send his life and the lives of others around him out of control.
The Flowers of Evil
2019 ‘惡の華’ Directed by Noboru Iguchi
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"Let's turn this classroom into a sea full of shit-bugs!"
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…
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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, pero ahora tras verla...no sé como sentirme al respecto.
La película logra alcanzar el final del manga (a…
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A sentimental film about human identity and escapism that feels like a mix of the emptiness from "Goth" with the hentai stuff from "Love Exposure". Performances are amazing, didn't expect to become so emotionally attached to these characters.
I just don't seem to get tired of these romance films about outcast teens as I get older. This is easily Noboru Iguchi's best film and very different from all his previous stuff. Story is so good it makes me want to watch the anime version. (don't turn off the film before the post-credit scene).
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“I’ll build the other side right here, in this town.”
I’ve been keen for The Flowers of Evil movie since it was first announced, but it’s taken me until now to finally sit down with it. It’s fun, but nonetheless upholds the time-honoured adaptation tradition of manga > anime > live action.
Tina Tamashiro is the film’s standout as Nakamura, one of my all-time favourite anime characters whom I was thrilled to see done justice. I’ve had Tina’s film Diner in my watchlist for ages by virtue of its director, but that’s officially skyrocketed as a priority viewing.
With no real point of difference between this and the original, I doubt I’d recommend Flowers of Evil to anyone that wasn’t already a fan of the source. That said, if you liked the manga and/or anime (and you should), it’s probably worth watching for the classroom scene alone.
Three giant flower eyeballs in the sky out of five.
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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,… -
Surprisingly mature and serious film from Iguchi, best known for his crazy horror shlock. This manga/anime adaptation is a pretty typical Japanese coming of age drama, though it fosters a darker side that brings an interesting edge to the film. Well acted, solid visuals and intriguing characters make for a fine film.
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Alcuni passi indietro rispetto all'opera animata (non ho letto il manga) seppur incompleta, mancano alcuni pezzi che secondo me in questo live action erano necessari, non a caso l'unico difetto è che la storia va troppo veloce e non si ha il tempo di metabolizzare (soprattutto a chi si approccia solo al film).
Per il resto il film non è affatto male, mi ha intrattenuto parecchio nonostante alcune piccole pecche. -
The Flower of Evil manga and anime are some of my absolute favorite pieces of media ever, so I really wasn’t expecting much from this the live-action adaptation. I was worried I would have another ParaKiss situation; I didn’t want something I dearly love to be bastardized and turned into something terrible. But, this was pretty fucking great.
I do really appreciate how they attempted to adapt the entire series in just two hours, and actually succeeded pretty well, but at times it does feel like they kinda just tried to speed-run the whole thing. For the most part the pacing and storytelling is done quite well. It caught me off guard that it was not told in sequential order,…
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This live action adaptation (or better, translation) of the manga Flower of Evil fails on many aspects.
First of all, the direction, photography and acting are bland as bland can get, and at times they are just plainly bad.
Secondly, while it does an almost passable adaptation of the first part of the manga, it completely shits over the second part. As a consequence, the movie doesn't deliver what it was supposed to deliver. Also Tokiwa and Saeki make no sense at all in this movie.
Lastly, maybe it's time to understand that translating shot to shot a manga onto film is not a good idea.
Do yourself a favour and read the manga or, if you want a way way better adaptation, watch the anime, which unfortunately is incomplete but still worth it. -
Man I went to a lot of effort to find somewhere to watch this movie and it was noooooot worth it. Perhaps this story made sense in the manga but in this film it's completely nonsensical. Not only is the plot incredibly vague and pseudo-intellectual but the lead actors are giving perhaps the most over the top dramatic performances I have EVER seen, it is WAAAAY too much. I understand that they want to act animated and cartoonish but my god is it off putting, I was rolling my eyes constantly. If I had a nickel every time the protagonist fell to the floor and screamed during a situation that absolutely did not warrant that reaction I would have, like, a bunch of nickels. I'm normally a fan of goofy Japanese high school dramas but this one was just not it. How annoying.