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Droste no Hate de Bokura
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
Japan 2020
produced by Takahiro Otsuki, Kazuchika Yoshida for Tollywood
directed by Junta Yamaguchi
starring Kazunari Tosa, Riko Fujitani, Gota Ishida, Masashi Suwa, Yoshifumi Sakai, Haruki Nakagawa, Munenori Nagano, Takashi Sumita, Chikara Honda, Aki Asakura
written by Makoto Ueda, music by Koji Takimoto
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Kato (Kazunari Tosa), owner of a small café, one evening discovers
that the TV in his café and the computer in his apartment are two minutes
out of sync, meaning from his apartment he can see what happens in the
café two minutes in the future. Why that is he doesn't know, and he also
doesn't know how to deal with this groundbreaking discovery - but he
doesn't even have time to think about the latter, as when his waitress
(Riko Fujitani) and his friends (Gota Ishida, Masashi Suwa, Yoshifumi
Sakai) find out they pretty much take over, and soon put the computer and
the TV opposite one another to effectively create an endless loop to look
further than two minutes into the future. And against Kato's protests
really they decide to exploit the future for their own enrichment - which
is only to a degree hampered by the sheer fact that even with the two
monitors across one another, there's only that far you can see into the
future. But with the help of this time loop, they do find quite a sum of
apparently masterless money, so they think they've figured out a short cut
to wealth - cut short by some gangsters who lay claim on the money and to
teach our heroes a lesson take Megumi (Aki Asakura), Kato's secret love
who hasn't got anything to do with any of this, captive. And now it's up
to Kato to free her, going up against two armed men with no fighting
skills whatsoever, and only vague infos from the future as his defense ... On
a pure technical level, Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes is quite
the achievement, as it was shot in one continuous take (and if there were
edits they were well-hidden) while the story of the film is working on
different time levels simultaneously - so the mere logistics of this are
rather mind-boggling. But the real achievement of this movie is
that it doesn't feel like the tour de force it undoubtedly was but it
comes across as a well written piece of science fiction and a
light-hearted (yet not light-weight) comedy at the same time, as a film
that's in equal parts thoughtful and intelligent and just plain funny -
and that despite (or maybe because of) the occasional leap of reason seems
as thought through narratively as it was on the planning side of things,
all resulting in great entertainment.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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