This marks my first time watching a movie that I fully own. Before I’d been ~acquiring~ my movies, but with Mishima I was gifted the Criterion Blu-ray (which I ripped of course, I’m not buying a shitty disc player). Its very special to me to watch it in the best digital quality possible.
I’ve never really liked how often people describe movies as masterpieces. Sure there’s lots of movies so there’s bound to be quite a few, but it still feels /too/ frequent to me. When I first watched this movie I knew that I could probably consider it a masterpiece, but wanted to make sure that I rewatched it before claiming that. A masterpiece is sacred in my eyes, and by naming movies too often as such only devalues them.
After rewatching this movie, I can say without a doubt that this really is a masterpiece. I could go on about every aspect of the movie, and I would never be able to describe how great it is. It has so much to say about living with art and beauty. If you’re reading this and haven’t seen it, Watch It.
A Spring Fling https://tilde.town/~lateen/spring-fling.html