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>>44545901
I love how good 'A Bride for Rip Van Winkle' was at capturing loneliness in the modern age and how jarring it is to make genuine connections online. I felt this film was an amalgam of every theme and idea Iwai Shunji has explored through his career until that point. There's everything from his previous works and they were constructed perfectly from start to finish. The characters' development in particular was topnotch.
>>44547196
'PiCNiC' is an absolutely beautiful film, like all of Iwai's works, really. No matter how harrowing or anguish-wrought its content is, there's a dreamlike magic imbued into its very blood. That adventure they sat upon was incredibly gripping, especially thanks to those rules they imposed on themselves regarding the walls. I love how the walls represent freedom in this film instead of confinement. How they're all portrayed as humans despite everyone else treating them as mental cases. It was so full of tragedy, empathy, and understanding of mental illness. The ending is one of the best things I've ever seen in cinema.

>>42635694
I think PiCNiC (1996) by Iwai Shunji has some similarities to it.