Love & Pop

[Julien Seveon]

Sorry to get back so late to this post...
Anyway, I just happened to have bought Mark Schilling's book this week-end 
(by the way a must read for anyone interested in Japanese cinema) and tend 
to completely disagree with his review of Love and Pop.
What really bother me in this movie is the way Anno show these young high 
school girls.
For instance take Bounce Ko Gals :it is a very social and political work 
criticising both the young high school girls and the dirty old men who uses 
them for their pleasure (plus a very interesting parallel on the way Japan 
used thousands of South Asian women during the war).
In Anno?s movie there?s absolutely to reaction or criticise about this ?new 
form of commerce?. Anno seems to follow the common trend in Japan, where 
high school girls selling their body is seen has something completely casual 
(and paedophiles videos are sold in shops in Tokyo completely legally).
Sure the way Love and Pop was shot is very interesting, but after a while 
you start being fed up of the camera shot at girl?s underwear level. From 
what I understand Murakami book was much more criticises regarding this 
subject.

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