Love Exposure (5 Stars)

1. Corinthians 13

 1. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
 2. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
 3. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
 4. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
 5. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
 6. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
 7. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
 8. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
 9. For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10. but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
11. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
12. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

This is one of the best films ever made. It's definitely the best film ever made in Japan. I don't know how to describe it in a way that would do it justice. It tells the story of Yu, a 17-year-old boy in a strict Catholic house, and his attempts to find his one true love. As is to be expected from Sion Sono, the path to true love leads through a maze of religious guilt, madness and maniacal slaughters. The film rambles on for four hours, alternating between action sequences, moral dilemmas and teenage angst. It can't be pinned down to any one genre. It has to be watched to believed.