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Buster knew how to serve face

A more conventional film would juxtapose the highfalutin city folk’s view of Takumi with a more earthly, calm, cherubic Takumi. Hamaguchi dares to ask, what if Takumi is also a complicated character? In fact, what if everyone is complicated with completely unique, deep inner lives? This is the type of film that puts the lie to all of film, because the project of film is to apply convention to what is inherently unconventional, form to the formless. There is beauty in doing that, but it also leans into humanity’s proclivity towards anthropomorphizing wild nature, seeing faces where there are none.