{"id":12825,"date":"2018-11-01T22:45:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T03:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12825"},"modified":"2018-11-01T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T03:45:46","slug":"cure-1997-kiyoshi-kurosawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12825","title":{"rendered":"Cure (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opens with a psychokinetic woman reading <em>Bluebeard<\/em>, then a guy kills someone with a pipe to happy upbeat music.  I haven&#8217;t seen this since it came out, and didn&#8217;t remember most of it, except that the whole movie takes place in shabby, leaky buildings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/cure1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Takabe (the great K\u00f4ji Yakusho &#8211; he&#8217;ll always be &#8220;Ship Captain in <em>Pulse<\/em>&#8221; to me) investigates the pipe murder and finds the killer immediately.  Then a guy kills his wife, a cop shoots his partner, each admits their crime and says it felt like the right thing to do at the time, and they&#8217;d all been in contact with a wandering amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara: <em>Caf\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re<\/em>, <em>Chaos<\/em>), a psychology dropout who got deep into hypnotism and occult psychotherapy.  &#8220;All the things that used to be inside me&#8230; now they&#8217;re all outside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/cure2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Peter Labuza <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/labuzamovies\/film\/cure\/\">on letterboxd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the film is told in long takes, these takes are given a mundane design.  The initial scene at the beach is one of the most frightening moments in the film without anything in the frame to suggest that this moment is frightening.  Characters are relaxedly placed in the frame, not tightly ordered, and the way that the antagonist controls his doomed subjects is through commonplace lighters and glasses of water.  Kurosawa emphasizes their importance the first time in the frame, but then allows them to stand as far back in the frame as possible otherwise, letting our own paranoid spectatorship create the fear than letting the camera do it.  <em>Cure<\/em>&#8216;s mise-en-scene does everything possible to tell you &#8220;this is not a horror movie,&#8221; in the same way that the hypnotized have no understanding of the atrocities they are forced to commit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opens with a psychokinetic woman reading Bluebeard, then a guy kills someone with a pipe to happy upbeat music. I haven&#8217;t seen this since it came out, and didn&#8217;t remember most of it, except that the whole movie takes place in shabby, leaky buildings. Takabe (the great K\u00f4ji Yakusho &#8211; he&#8217;ll always be &#8220;Ship Captain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,2163,176,940,1319],"class_list":["post-12825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-hypnosis","tag-kiyoshi-kurosawa","tag-mind-control","tag-serial-killer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12857,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions\/12857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}