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movie review - Drifting Home

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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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.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.