Interesting. I love modern twists on classic stories. Out of interest, how familiar are you with the story of Journey to the West, and what sort of interesting decisions did this make in the process of adapting it to scifi?
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Only familiar in that I grew up watching the Japanese TV show Monkey and have seen a few other Journey adaptations since then (seems to be a new one every year or so). After watching this movie I feel like I need to read the book for the first time.
The sci-fi in this is really low-key, not so much wizz bang/hi-tech as humanistic Carl Sagany sci-fi.
It's shot in a mockumentary style and the characters are all a bit sad. I'm also not sure if the movie is punching down on all of them at the same time. Like I said in another comment perhaps I missed a lot of local humour and context.
I make it sound worse then it is. We enjoyed it.
Edit: it was also good to see 'Subtitles by SBS' in the credits again (like the old days before advertising). I feel like we've watched a lot of badly subbed movies on SBS the last few years and I was wondering if SBS had cut that department.
How was it?
Yeah good. I was a bit fidgety last night and didn't give it my undivided attention in the second half (maybe because of the anti-Chinese comment someone posted here).
I think I missed a bit of context or maybe some things were lost in translation. Kind of like how you can really enjoy Shin Godzilla but you just know that the political satire just doesn't translate through subtitles and the such.