About a third of the way through I became emotionally invested in the theory that Scarlet was actually a modern-day Japanese actress preparing to star in Hamlet, and the whole movie was just a fever dream while she was recovering in a coma and would wake up and ask Hijiri on a date. That didn't pan out and it wouldn't have made that much of a difference, it was mediocre film regardless.
>so this time I wanted to use Shakespeare's Hamlet as a basis for my movie>but also shoehorn in some message about world peace via some Yaranaika-looking motherfucker serving as external character development for the main character >also I fell in love with this one pop song so let's construct the entire second act around it and then never mention it againThis movie looked good but that's my only compliment. I almost wish I didn't know anything about Hamlet going into it because I think there is some merit to a revenge-driven protagonist being forced together with a carebear who refuses to inflict harm and growing as a result of constant exposure to that viewpoint, but knowing that Hamlet was supposed to be buried somewhere in that mess ruined it for me.
A perfectly mediocre movie
