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movie review - Drifting Home

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2022.09.17

Now I'm not dumb but I can't understand how this story played like fantasy but we're expected to believe that it's real. I mean, the kids at a minimum spent a shared hallucination over at least one night in an abandoned residential block. It's possible that a lot was lost in translation here but then I'm not sure what they were getting at with the inevitable sinking of the building when it sets sail in a world flooded with water and studded with other buildings.

I simply didn't get it. And I live in Japan and partially comprehend the language.

Not recommended.

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... I'll let you in on a secret. Big people are exactly the same as little people. They're selfish, squabbling children whose motivations are jealousy and greed. No one becomes big when the hit adulthood. They just become better at hiding how small they are.

Jonathan Rosenberg