All Of Us Strangers
Just finished watching "All Of Us Strangers" released by Fox Search Light, which ironically is owned now by the Walt Disney Compnay.
"All Of Us Strangers" is actually a remake of the Japanese movie "Strangers," which is based on the original novel by Taichi Yamada.
Now the original novel and first movie centers around middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up. There, at the theatre, he meets a likable man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada''s ordeal, as he''s thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they had died so many years before.
The English remake follows the basic plot, of the novel, but centers around Adam, a screenwriter, who after encountering the sole other resident in his nearly empty apartment building, visits the area where he live before his parents died when he was a young child and discovers that they are still alive just as they were 30 years ago.
"All Of Us Strangers" cheats a bit in its story telling. Adam's parents do interact with other people other than Adam, but it suggests that either Adam is slowly going insane, or he is really interacting with the ghosts of his parents.
It's also a tragic love story that suggests that Adam dies in the end. It's all left to the viewers interpretation.
Remakes are always chancy and changing the sexuality of the main character and some other parts of the story is not always a great idea, let alone a good one.
It's hard to recommend this movie, because it's a remake with Western values.
Two Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/All-Strangers-...
"All Of Us Strangers" is actually a remake of the Japanese movie "Strangers," which is based on the original novel by Taichi Yamada.
Now the original novel and first movie centers around middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up. There, at the theatre, he meets a likable man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada''s ordeal, as he''s thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they had died so many years before.
The English remake follows the basic plot, of the novel, but centers around Adam, a screenwriter, who after encountering the sole other resident in his nearly empty apartment building, visits the area where he live before his parents died when he was a young child and discovers that they are still alive just as they were 30 years ago.
"All Of Us Strangers" cheats a bit in its story telling. Adam's parents do interact with other people other than Adam, but it suggests that either Adam is slowly going insane, or he is really interacting with the ghosts of his parents.
It's also a tragic love story that suggests that Adam dies in the end. It's all left to the viewers interpretation.
Remakes are always chancy and changing the sexuality of the main character and some other parts of the story is not always a great idea, let alone a good one.
It's hard to recommend this movie, because it's a remake with Western values.
Two Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/All-Strangers-...
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