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User Comments for: A Page of Madness

manicure says...
2 years ago
I stumbled upon this obscure Japanese film by almost accident but was immediately taken in by the uncanny atmosphere of the images. Even though it's hard to figure out plot details without the original narration, I could enjoy most of it as some sort of moving avant-garde painting. The most astonishing thing is how Kinugasa could use lighting and simple editing techniques as proper storytelling devices, for example, distortion to show the same angle from a different perspective, overlaps to emphasize hallucinations, and cross-cutting to switch from dream to reality or to introduce a flashback. These techniques might not have been entirely new for Asian cinema at that time, but had been hardly implemented with such a modern taste.
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