9.10.2004
Help! Someone Defend the Helpless Orientals!
This chick obviously did not enjoy "The Elephant Vanishes" as much as me. She clearly just does not want to enjoy life. That and she seems to have issues with character-driven stories, not to mention anything less than literal. Hey lady! Lighten up.
I guess she's probably just exhausted from the energy she spends to defend the Japanese against the horrific crimes of orientalism committed by this show:
Oh and the Japanese too, perpetrating cliches against themselves. Though what those cliches might be other than the fact that they use paper sliding doors I'm not quite clear on. Has this chick ever been to Japan? What does she think is the cliche and is it a Western cliche of Japan or just a cliche? Anyway, if a housewife, a young married couple, and an appliance salesman are socialites I'll be a non-bathing-in-the-hot-springs non-attacking-if-you-make-eye-contact Japanese monkey's uncle.
Is it just me or does everyone in this PC world have to play against type just to prove they're not succumbing to it? How exactly is one supposed to write about alienation, isolation, or daily life without tainting all of Tokyo?
I guess she's probably just exhausted from the energy she spends to defend the Japanese against the horrific crimes of orientalism committed by this show:
...I'm afraid that what McBurney and his Japanese counterparts have delivered is a cliche-driven mishmash of sub-Kill Bill orientalism, with Tokyo socialites depicted as institutionalised, sombre people who spend their lives forever swishing in and out of paper sliding doors.Um...let me get this straight, Japanese stories by Japanese author acted by Japanese people in Japanese, shown to rave reviews in Japan and directed by British director. That rat! Taking advantage that way. Anyway, how could he ever understand something so foreign to him.
Oh and the Japanese too, perpetrating cliches against themselves. Though what those cliches might be other than the fact that they use paper sliding doors I'm not quite clear on. Has this chick ever been to Japan? What does she think is the cliche and is it a Western cliche of Japan or just a cliche? Anyway, if a housewife, a young married couple, and an appliance salesman are socialites I'll be a non-bathing-in-the-hot-springs non-attacking-if-you-make-eye-contact Japanese monkey's uncle.
Is it just me or does everyone in this PC world have to play against type just to prove they're not succumbing to it? How exactly is one supposed to write about alienation, isolation, or daily life without tainting all of Tokyo?
