Random Acts of Cinema

535 - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)


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Bowie! Sakamoto! Obsession! Uh, POW camp! And...war atrocities!? Torture? Ritual suicide? A subtle exploration of the despondency of an officer in charge of a prison camp facing the different cultural interpretations of the honor of surrendering while simultaneously tormented by his absence at the coup d'etat and subsequent executions of his comrades during the February 26 incident of 1939?  Why, that can only mean that we are watching Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawerence!

If you'd like to watch ahead for next week, we will be discussing and reviewing Jon Waters' Polyester (1981). So get your Odorama card ready.

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