Guilty of Romance
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| German title | Guilty of Romance |
| Original title | 恋 の 罪 ( Koi no Tsumi ) |
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| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 144 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Sion Sono |
| production | Yoshinori Chiba, Nobuhiro Iizuka |
| music | Yasuhiro Morinaga |
| camera | Sōhei Tanikawa |
| cut | Jun'ichi Itō |
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Guilty of Romance ( Japanese 恋 の 罪 , Koi no Tsumi ) is a Japanese film from 2011 by Sion Sono . After Love Exposure and Cold Fish, it is the conclusion of Sono's "Hate" trilogy.
action
In the "scene" in Shibuya, Commissioner Yoshida is investigating the murder of a young woman and now has to embark on a gloomy search for the identity of the dismembered corpse that leads her to Izumi and Mitsuko. Izumi is married to a successful writer who strictly follows his pedantic work rhythm. Early in the morning he sets out to a secret place to write his novels and only comes home late. Izumi feels neglected and bored of her monotonous life. One day, while working in a supermarket, a modeling agent persuades her to do a photo shoot. However, she soon realizes that it is a porn shoot. In doing so, she discovers the pleasure of the forbidden and sexual adventures. During her adventures, she meets the literature teacher Mitsuko, who also prostitutes herself and introduces Izumi to the abyss of sexual services and love hotels . Franz Kafka's novel Das Schloss appears again and again as a metaphor.
music
The Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony forms, as in Death in Venice , one of the musical themes of the film. The underlay of the scenes with chamber music passages does not seem ironic, but gives the “unheard-of” a structure to unfold. The more intense the disturbance, the more tirelessly Sion Sono uses the musical theme.
background
The story is loosely based on the 1997 murder of Yasuko Watanabe. She worked as an economics researcher at TEPCO , but at night she prostituted herself in the Shibuya district of Tokyo .
Reviews
“In Guilty of Romance, cinema as a whole becomes an experience of sensuality and distance, in a constant, highly form-conscious interplay between investigation and entanglement. The realm of the senses no longer has an outside here, there is no observer position where the splashing color could not hit us at some point, and the reference to the higher nonsense that this film is certainly also is no guarantee that one of these is perhaps the most ambitious of all erotic thrillers doesn't take away a bit. "
“ Guilty of Romance is a playing field of ephemeral pleasure and at the same time a minefield of meanings, which Sion Sono generously passed over with the poetry spreader. Here, the topic of sex meets a society that is holed up with rituals and discipline in front of a crazy world. That means: A blowjob with a good couple is preceded by the curtsey of the woman. "
“In the cinema, words have to become images and bodies, have to be lived through and experienced. However, if what they designate is invisible - like 'love' and 'guilt' - then they will be suffered. Love still has no body for you, the professor tells her student - but soon. Your embodiment becomes the passion of Sonos Kino. He turns women into the agents of this passion. The murdered woman at the beginning of the film shows the price: her death. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Show me the body for the word love , from July 15, 2012
- ↑ IMDb: Trivia on the film , accessed on October 17, 2012
- ↑ Die Zeit : How much do you cost? , from July 19, 2012
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Fragments of a Body of Love , July 21, 2012
Web links
- German website of the lender
- Guilty of Romance in the Internet Movie Database (English)