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Too many fans seem to be blown away

I wanted to but couldn't!

Captivating movie !

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I have seen this when it first came out in 2004 in an art-house cinema in Australia. Recently, I have watched it again in Bangkok, where the story takes place - although this is not a Bangkok that has much in common with its real counterpart.Then I read some of the reviews on IMDb.Sometimes people's reactions to a film amaze me. It is not that I would expect everyone to understand or appreciate the delightful idiosyncrasies of a film like Last Life. Nor would I be condescending to those that dislike the film. I don't mind a good actioner every now and then. However, films like Last Life remind me how easily a film can become a poetic experience or an essay in philosophy.Last Life is the former. With its gentle pace, its in-cinema jokes (did you notice Todunabu Asano's bleached hair Ichii the Killer face on the poster or recognized Ichi's director Miike as the thug?), its very-Thai light comedy pushed into the midst of melancholy, it is a touching yet elusive poem. Poem about what? About life, death, love, and how it is preferable to be with the people you think you cannot stand to being alone.It is admittedly acquired taste - especially for those that are brought up on supersized Hollywood junk. For the rest of us, whether or not we get all the meaning there is (whether or not there is a meaning) it is a delightful experience.

This film basically tells the story of the encounter between two individuals through a random incident. The girl here is the delightful and pretty Noi, and the guy is the laconic and awkward Kenji.There is this moody and melancholic feel throughout the whole film. The girl's house is dimly-lit, the sky is gray, and conversations between the two are sparse. The atmosphere evokes many feelings from myself. There are certain scenes that conjured up some nostalgic memories from the past, and I can relate to many scenes from the movie all too well.There are some magical scenes: the two of them sitting silently watching television while the girl chain-smokes away, the scene where the papers gyrated around the house caused by the wind...This is a rather slow film, and the plot is simplistic. It's rather a film to be felt and experienced.

Last Life in the Universe, a story about a suicidal librarian who moves in with a pot smoking woman, i'm sure you've already read the synopsis of the film.I liked the story quite a bit, it held my interest for the most part. It had some unexpected twists and turns. The imagery was especially beautiful. A lot of cool shots and directing concepts drew me strongly. The chemistry between Kenji and Noi was realistic and charming. The cute quips they fired back and forth put a grin on my face.However, the pace was slower than it needed to be i felt. It's hard to appreciate good imagery and dialogue when the shots linger too long. The movie could have been about 15 minutes shorter of the director had edited down some of the shots go on too long after we get the gist of it.7/10 heartfelt and intriguing, but let's not take so long about it please?

Recap: Kenji is a Japanese man living in Bangkok. He's quiet and withdrawn, working as a librarian and books seem to be his whole life. His pedantically organized home is full of them. However, Kenji is also obsessed with suicide, and repeatedly tries/plans to kill himself, to escape his loneliness. Something seems to turn up and interrupt him every time though. Noi is the opposite. She is a prostitute and her life is more or less in constant chaos, full of violence, drugs and meaningless/destructive relationships. Under odd circumstances they meet and Kenji ends up moving in with Noi, and later starts to get to know her. Together they form an odd pair under pressure from outside forces but find strength in each other.Comments: This is a very odd movie, but with a peculiar quality that is hard to define. In contrast to most thrillers out of the west (i.e Europa, USA) that puts as much action and violence as it can this Asian production does the opposite. On all levels. This is a very slow movie, but do not make the mistake and put that equal to bad. There is not much action or violence, and that there is is mostly out of picture. The shy and pedantic Kenji does not say much at all, in contrast to Noi that speaks much. But with only one part running the dialog it is slow and intentionally limping. The slowness also is represented in the film itself, in a cinematographic (is that a real word or just something I just thought should be? anyway, I hope you understand what I mean) way. At first I thought the camera never moved at all, the director choosing to cut instead to change point of view. But this is not entirely true, in fact the camera and view changes in almost every scene. But it is very slow and very little, and hardly noticeable. So the camera becomes a very static point, in line with the story that moves slow as well.Still there is some peculiar kind of quality that I am having a hard time putting my finger on it. There is humor, in an almost wordless way, but nonetheless, it is there. There is the opposite characters and their fate. And there is the looming end that because of the circumstances must come, in one way or another. So the movie never became dull, but instead gave time and room for thought. It also is a visually beautiful movie with clashes between Kenji's pedantic living and Noi's chaos. Especially there is one scene when Noi is having a drug-induced hallucination of Kenji's effect on her life and house. Beautiful! This is a movie for those who want to see something different, something else. Not another blockbuster.6/10