But I didn't feel an ounce of sympathy for him after what happened with Kuno. They keep going back to the shot of Hoshino alone in the field with his headphones, screaming his head off because life was so awful. The tone for the ending of the film made it seem like all of the main characters were victims of this awful situation and as a result, have been living awful lives themselves, and their way of coping was through music. I despised Hoshino and his crew for this. The thing that has been bothering me is that I feel the telling people to rape, the people actually raping, and the filming of the raping of Kuno to be on a different level of fucked up. I think it worked for the numerous beatings, forced public masturbation, blackmailed prostitution, forced naked mud swimming, etc.
I get that the movie was about these fucked-up youths who all managed to keep their head above the water through the music of Lily Chou-Chou, and I think it did pull those things off. I tried doing a bit of research after finishing the film, and I'm starting to feel like maybe I am the only one who feels this way. That being said, I'm really struggling with the tone of the movie by the end. I found the cinematography to be stunning, I loved the music and the way it was used in conjunction with the plot, and I enjoyed the use of superimposing text on the screen for the website everyone was using. Let me get the positives out of the way quickly.
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