{"id":159532,"date":"2016-04-20T12:52:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T19:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=159532"},"modified":"2016-04-20T12:52:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T19:52:53","slug":"the-sea-of-trees-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2016\/04\/20\/the-sea-of-trees-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sea of Trees Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Title: The Sea of Trees<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Director: Gus Van Sant<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, Ken Watanabe.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you google \u201cthe perfect place to die\u201d your result will be the Aokigahara Forest, The Suicide Woods of Mount Fuji. This phrase, which is the title of Wataru Tsurumui\u2019s bestselling book, has inspired director Gus Van Sant for a new film that explores a man\u2019s introspection on the way he has lead his life as a husband.<\/p>\n<p>An American scientist, Arthur Brennan (Matthew McConaughey), travels to the &#8220;Suicide Forest&#8221; in Japan, the site of numerous suicides, to end his life. There he encounters a Japanese man, Takumi Nakamura (Ken Watanabe), who wants to kill himself as well, and both men begin a journey of self-reflection and survival, where Arthur contemplates the flaws in the relationship with his wife Joan (Naomi Watts).<\/p>\n<p>This voyage through Purgatory is rather rhetorical, since the man of science \u00a0 \u2014 who disbelieves in the supernatural \u2014 is pushed to acknowledge the greater forces around us. In perfect J.J. Abrahams\u2019 style we will come to discover (without any surprise) that the encounter in the woods was an illusion for enlightenment. Watanabe-Virgil leads McConaughey-Dante in the depths of the lieu of cleansing and purging, where the American visitor can undergo penance for his wrongdoings towards his Beatrice-Watts.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that Gus Van Sant explores the theme of death, in \u2018Elephant\u2019 it was contingent, in \u2018Paranoid Park\u2019 it was accidental, in \u2018Last Days\u2019 it was suicidal, in \u2018Restless\u2019 it was a mise en sc\u00e8ne about love. \u2018The Sea of Trees\u2019 continues along these lines but without having that poetic romance. The banal love-crisis story gets sucked up into pretentious existential ponderings. All the elements that should surprise are predictable and the audience sees them coming beforehand. Just like the protagonists of \u2018The Sea of Trees\u2019 Gus Van Sant loses his bearings on whether to channel his latest movie towards independent filmmaking or Hollywood mainstream.<\/p>\n<p><b>Technical: B<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Acting: B<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Story: C-<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Overall: C+<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Written by: Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Sea-of-Trees-Movie-Review.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Sea-of-Trees-Movie-Review.jpg\" alt=\"The Sea of Trees Movie Review\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-159613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Sea-of-Trees-Movie-Review.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Sea-of-Trees-Movie-Review-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Sea of Trees Director: Gus Van Sant Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, Ken Watanabe. 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