Labels: Movie Review
Watched Nightmare Detective with ZX, Wilson and SM just now, SOP style. Before starting the review I would need to declare some stuff first. It was me who suggested watching this movie and after this movie I was blacklisted from suggesting movies to watch the next time even though I personally quite like this movie, therefore this review may be subjected to a certain degree of bias.
For some background knowledge, this is a manga-inspired Japanese movie which won award at Venice Film Festive. Basically it is a thriller involving a detective and a man who is able to penetrate into other people's dream trying to solve suicide cases where the victims slashed themselves in their nightmare.
This movie does have the compenents of what a good movie should have, which include suspense, action, humour and a reasonable plot. The male lead actor is supposingly also a very famous pop idol in Japan though I've never heard of him but I feel that he gives me the Jay Chou impression in terms of looks and expression.
The movie mainly revolves around the theme of suicide and to a large extent it is discouraging suicide which I believed is rather common in Japan. It shows that those who attempt to suicide is actually afraid to die even up to the last minute which they decided to take their own lives even though it's too late. However it also exposed the fact that everyone will have a certain level of suicidal thoughts within them, either consciously or sub-consciously which makes us prone to manipulation. On the otherhand, the movie reminded us that we should also remember the happy moments that we enjoyed and realised how fortunate we are and should not take suicide as a quick solution.
Award winning films are often more difficult to understand or appreciate unlike the normal Hollywood or Hong Kong shows. Therefore a fair statement I would have for this movie will be that you will either like it a lot or find it very boring. From a personal point of view it's a 3.5/5 movie.
