#js2020

Kite appreciation post 💥💥

So, Japan Sinks 2020 was....a fucking masterpiece. Holy shit. My cousin was super insistent we watch and I just truly wasn’t expecting it to be so RAW. 

Japan Sinks 2020: Do you want a tidy up storyline? Too bad, life is a fucking train wreck and all of us are alive by pure luck. Everyday thousands of people survive horrible things and other millions die because of the stupidities shit ever, so swallow your fucking tears and start moving before you die as well. A love triangle? We don’t have time for that shit, society is falling apart. Do you think that the Cult arc was useless? So is life. No, we don’t care if the logic doesn’t make sense, Japan is fucking sinking. Oh, did the protagonist finally been rescued? Time to drop the weight of all that awful shit that happened in a 14 year-old and force her to face the bottled up trauma.

I see a lot of people complaining about the storytelling in Japan Sinks 2020 but let me just remind y'all that culturally, there are differences in how characters respond to situations as opposed to Western storytelling- especially in this particular style of narrative which is called "Ma" or "Negative Space"- where the focus is on the characters themselves, and the events unfolding around them as they see it. That's why other characters pass and go with no dive into their backstories. It's unnecessary to the two main characters' journey through this place and these events.