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dangermousieYesterday I saw Rorouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal. I bought it, and sorry ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
katranna I like it and am keeping it (btw, never fear, I watched it subtitled, not dubbed).
Plot: An idealistic 19th century Japanese assassin for a cause hates himself for the bloodshed he is causing and falls in love with a mysterious woman. This being the kind of movie where if the hero has a dog, someone would kill it, this does not end well. By "not end well" I mean it will inspire you to watch 3 Stooges for a month as an antidote.
Loved the artwork: beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. The story was interesting, even though depressing enough to make me want to get some uppers, and with the help of Mr. Dangermousie I could follow the convoluted politics with no problem. Also, *embarassed* I kinda sniffled a bit. Well, actually I cried, but we won't mention that.
The angst got a bit too much at times. Past a certain point you just want to start going: "Come on, no one's life could possibly be this rotten all the time!" I wanted to get both Kenshin and Tomoe some severe anti-depressants and therapy. Or maybe just to get them roaring drunk and have mindless and fun sex together. Heck, I needed therapy myself after it was over.
Personally, if I had to spend too much time with either of them, I'd start babbling to myself as neither of them talk much and are both quiet and reticent.
Conversation sample:
Kenshin: The moon is full tonight.
Tomoe: Yes, it is beautiful.
*24 hours pass without talking*
Kenshin: We will sell our vegetables.
Tomoe: I will prepare them for the market.
Well, not really, but chattiness was not one of their characteristics :)
The love story was lovely and subtle and star-crossed and super-doomed and incredibly angsty. And, oh the tragic irony of Kenshin who wanted nothing as much as to protect Tomoe, causing her death.
Also, seriously, prozac does wonders...
Fave scenes:
The bit where Kenshin first sees Tomoe in the rain, after she's just witnessed one of his assissinations and she is covered in blood. He is thinking whether he should kill her as she is a witness. Then she says "you made the bloody rain fall" and crumples, and he takes her home to take care of her. Awwwww....
The fact that he gives her his room and bed and ends up sleeping sitting up the whole time she is there. Come on, woman, you don't have to have sex with him, but you can let him sleep in a bed. His back will be killing him. But then when she puts a cloh around his neck so he won't be cold is also awwww. So is the fact that he attacks her almost before he wakes up (good reflexes) but near the end is so used to her that he just sleeps on.
Poor Kenshin, he likes being a farmer. This is how you know it won't last.
The bit where he is chopping wood, and every time he strikes the wood, he sees the faces of the men he's killed.
The scene where she finally tells him about herself and they hold each other and (I assume by the cloth off her shoulders and the fact they are sharing a bed in the morning) finally make love. I don't know if I'd want to hold my beloved as she is talking about her dead fiance, but to each their own...The artwork is gorgeous. And he wows to protect her. Ahhh, the irony. Now you know something horrible is going to happen.
When he gets told Tomoe is the traitor the morning after by the evil mustache guy and starts walking to the hut where she supposdly is (of course, it's an evil trap). If you thought the angst was bad before, just you wait: he is mentally tormented, physically beaten on, and has flashbacks to their time together. You just want to give him a hug, except for the whole "even severey wounded and screwed in the head, he'd chop your arms off"
Tomoe jumping in front of his opponent's strike to protect him, and getting slashed by Kenshin's sword instead (yeah, he looked 3/4 dead, but he's still good). Ahhhh, the angsty irony. Or something. I have something in my eye and can't see too clearly...
And now I know how he got his cross-shaped scar. He's got to be in pretty bad shape to not even flinch. And then of course he sits with her in their house, and then leaves and burns it down to the ground leaving his one childhood posssession with her.
Doesn't inspire me to seek out more anime (for one thing, any more of such misery and I'll need therapy myself), but this was certainly very good.
katranna I like it and am keeping it (btw, never fear, I watched it subtitled, not dubbed).Plot: An idealistic 19th century Japanese assassin for a cause hates himself for the bloodshed he is causing and falls in love with a mysterious woman. This being the kind of movie where if the hero has a dog, someone would kill it, this does not end well. By "not end well" I mean it will inspire you to watch 3 Stooges for a month as an antidote.
Loved the artwork: beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. The story was interesting, even though depressing enough to make me want to get some uppers, and with the help of Mr. Dangermousie I could follow the convoluted politics with no problem. Also, *embarassed* I kinda sniffled a bit. Well, actually I cried, but we won't mention that.
The angst got a bit too much at times. Past a certain point you just want to start going: "Come on, no one's life could possibly be this rotten all the time!" I wanted to get both Kenshin and Tomoe some severe anti-depressants and therapy. Or maybe just to get them roaring drunk and have mindless and fun sex together. Heck, I needed therapy myself after it was over.
Personally, if I had to spend too much time with either of them, I'd start babbling to myself as neither of them talk much and are both quiet and reticent.
Conversation sample:
Kenshin: The moon is full tonight.
Tomoe: Yes, it is beautiful.
*24 hours pass without talking*
Kenshin: We will sell our vegetables.
Tomoe: I will prepare them for the market.
Well, not really, but chattiness was not one of their characteristics :)
The love story was lovely and subtle and star-crossed and super-doomed and incredibly angsty. And, oh the tragic irony of Kenshin who wanted nothing as much as to protect Tomoe, causing her death.
Also, seriously, prozac does wonders...
Fave scenes:
The bit where Kenshin first sees Tomoe in the rain, after she's just witnessed one of his assissinations and she is covered in blood. He is thinking whether he should kill her as she is a witness. Then she says "you made the bloody rain fall" and crumples, and he takes her home to take care of her. Awwwww....
The fact that he gives her his room and bed and ends up sleeping sitting up the whole time she is there. Come on, woman, you don't have to have sex with him, but you can let him sleep in a bed. His back will be killing him. But then when she puts a cloh around his neck so he won't be cold is also awwww. So is the fact that he attacks her almost before he wakes up (good reflexes) but near the end is so used to her that he just sleeps on.
Poor Kenshin, he likes being a farmer. This is how you know it won't last.
The bit where he is chopping wood, and every time he strikes the wood, he sees the faces of the men he's killed.
The scene where she finally tells him about herself and they hold each other and (I assume by the cloth off her shoulders and the fact they are sharing a bed in the morning) finally make love. I don't know if I'd want to hold my beloved as she is talking about her dead fiance, but to each their own...The artwork is gorgeous. And he wows to protect her. Ahhh, the irony. Now you know something horrible is going to happen.
When he gets told Tomoe is the traitor the morning after by the evil mustache guy and starts walking to the hut where she supposdly is (of course, it's an evil trap). If you thought the angst was bad before, just you wait: he is mentally tormented, physically beaten on, and has flashbacks to their time together. You just want to give him a hug, except for the whole "even severey wounded and screwed in the head, he'd chop your arms off"
Tomoe jumping in front of his opponent's strike to protect him, and getting slashed by Kenshin's sword instead (yeah, he looked 3/4 dead, but he's still good). Ahhhh, the angsty irony. Or something. I have something in my eye and can't see too clearly...
And now I know how he got his cross-shaped scar. He's got to be in pretty bad shape to not even flinch. And then of course he sits with her in their house, and then leaves and burns it down to the ground leaving his one childhood posssession with her.
Doesn't inspire me to seek out more anime (for one thing, any more of such misery and I'll need therapy myself), but this was certainly very good.
