Villain
- heavy
- intense
Heavy, steady, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is shattered one day when he is involved in the murder of one of his former encounters, the sweet-faced Ishibashi Yoshino who, after being jilted by playboy Masuo Keijo, berates and mocks the troubled loner.
Our read · Villain (2010) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded crime · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Villain
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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