decided to torment us all with the Utena movie, which we mocked endlessly.
- Nobody actually goes to class at this “school.”
- It’s easier to identify people by the color of their hair than their actual names.
- There are roses everywhere, besides being a safety hazard at a high school, I’d think, because of the thorns.
- Of course, this “school” consists of nothing but floating platforms with no railings so I guess safety isn’t the prime concern of the staff.
- Wait…. what staff? All I remember seeing were students.
- People fight with real swords, yet don’t injure each other. Oh wait, there was that one part where the guy (Blue hair) stabbed his sister (Purple hair), but didn’t kill her, just made a huge gaping hole in her, which was supposed to be symbolic or some junk, much like the rest of the movie, but in his daze he pulls down a curtain and falls out a window and she has to bury him in a rose garden, one of many rose gardens in the school and did I mention that he stabs her because she was actually awake and pretending to be asleep when he was about to try and rape her and he was upset at this and this has been a very long sentence and I think this was the one bit of plot that I actually remember from the whole movie, but needed a bit of guidance from the peanut gallery to get to that point, anyway.
- Carwash. Magical carwash. Magical carwash that turns Utena (Pink) into a car. Which then starts confusing me, as I thought she was the heroine of the movie (being in the title and all), but ends up getting crushed by a tank or something at some point and there’s just this big dialogue between Purple and Blue (who’s dead at this point) while the entire student body has also been turned into cars and is chasing them and blowing up along the way and my sanity is already slipping just remembering this thing.
- Anyone who takes this movie seriously needs to get their head examined.
- Ikuhara is insane.
- Rose petals everywhere… the rose petals.
- *whimper*
- *curl in fetal ball*
tsk, tsk… I saw that film years ago. Translation probably didn’t help. The Utena movie will warp your brain. ^_^;
I couldn’t resist looking around the Internet to see what other people had to say about this movie. I went to check the movie’s IMDB reference and found the collective user rating for the film to be…7.1 out of 10. If you want to blow your mind, click on “User Comments” and (try) to read one fan’s theory about What Was Really Going On.
I also tried to read the article on Utena in Wikipedia but couldn’t get farther than the reference to Gnosticism. (Actually, I skipped down to that part, then decided to call it a night.)
BTW, did you know that Utena is also the name of a town in Lithuania?
Hmm I love that movie.. partially for the art direction and partially ‘cuz it’s just whack.
We actually tried watching the Utena series in our anime club at one point, and came to the conclusion that they left out the drugs you’re supposed to take before watching the show in order to understand it.
I personally managed to make it about 20 episodes into the series before things started getting a little too f’ed up. Some of the episodes were even funny, if you didn’t try to actually think about what was happening.
Funny you should mention the need to be drugged out to understand the Utena movie/series. Based on that criteria, Pink Floyd’s The Wall (movie) made a bit more sense than Utena, viewing it clean and sober. ^_^;
My favorite episode is still the one where they’re travelling around the world to get curry for something, and Nanami’s getting chased by elephants for half the episode. ^_^;
Utena movie is almost as bad if not about the same as the Evangelion movie. 🙂 Warped indeed! 🙂
Ikuhara is the japanese version of David Bowie! So what do you expect!
That is funny maria, because there was a interview in Newtype in 97-98 between Anno and Ikuhara. I am sure that is translated online somewhere .. lol
It was you who put the DVD in. No one else to blame!