that film bothered me all week, not just because of its beauty and enigma, but also because how kiyoshi kurosawa talked about it. he said, the future belongs to the youth, and it's bright for them, and the old generation has to be swept aside. on the surface, there wasn't any brightness in this future of the youth that he was talking about. two twenty-something, adrift in tokyo, had this irrepressible urge to kill their boss, the poster boy for a life without imagination. one of them went ahead and did it, and committed suicide in the jail, leaving his friend a mission in the form of a beautiful, glowing, yet fatal jellyfish. the weaker, surviving of the two threw the jellyfish away in a rage, hence unknowingly started propagating the creature. slowly, serendipitously, the jellyfish colonized the canals of tokyo before heading out to the sea. it's an incredibly beautiful yet sad movie, with a controversial idea at its heart. i didn't get it after the first viewing. what kind of future is that??
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