I think often about the time that my friend Rosie and I showed another mutual friend the movie Noroi: the Curse for the first time. This movie is one of Rosie's absolute favorites. During that scene near the end (spoilers ish?) where the characters all return to the cursed village and shit starts going worse and worse, I looked over and saw them respectively watching like this.
(Rosie gets excited during this scene because it's so well done, and builds the dread so well. She likes when movies are good. Dani was just horrified by the increasingly bad decision making and resulting consequences.)
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Ramblings about Noroi, spoilers, also I've only seen two movies from this cinematic universe
Mitsuo Hori from Noroi is so interesting because the narrative has ableist undertones in the sense that the main characters breaking his boundaries & causing him distress for their own gain is rewarded. However, my friend (was currently experiencing psychosis) and I (experiences psychosis infrequently, is on meds) both agreed that the movie did such a realistic portrayal of how people treat you while you're psychotic as well as accurately portray psychotic symptoms.
The trashy 2000s tv show exploited him, mocked his catatonia, and encouraged his delusions (or what seemed to be delusions) for their own gain; Mitsuo would often give direct answers to the detective and the detective wouldn't listen and ask the same things over and over; they called the authorities on Mitsuo to kidnap him and put him in an institution and it so clearly and obviously made his mental health worse; Mitsuo would try to help give answers in his own way (trying to write down his scattered thoughts, drawing a map) and since he wasn't answering verbally, the detective grabbed at him and shouted. Even the way his neighbours talk about him.
It didn't ruin the experience for me, though. I still loved the movie. Even with the ableist undertones, the tv show was still depicted as trashy & in the wrong for exploiting Mitsuo and the detective was characterized to, despite being thorough and smart, push things too far with only the slightest concern on how it might affect others (getting his wife involved with the victims of the case is another one). So I never felt like the movie was saying "this is how you should treat mentally ill people", it is just the undertones. I also don't hate the detective either, he was well-rounded and I did want him to succeed even if he started making poor decisions. He was incredibly passionate about researching the mystery and that made me root for him.
Some might say Mitsuo was an ableist caricature due to some of the stereotypes written into his character (obsession with tinfoil), but it felt realistic to me. They never wrote him to be evil or malicious (until his posession at the end, though that was the demon), the dude is just a poor man who wants to be left alone. The entire time I was watching I was thinking "man, it must suck so fucking bad to be schizophrenic but also dealing with a real demon & real curse at the same time".
The most I can say about Mitsuo is that he's from a horror/detective movie produced in a very conservative country in 2005, and so it could have been a lot worse. I won't fault anyone who can't watch it due to how he was treated though. It did feel very real at times, and reminded me of being shouted at while also having my answers ignored during psychotic episodes.
finally got my hands on the j-horror rising collection from arrow video which includes 7 japanese horror movies - including the infamous noroi the curse! πΊ
About a Place in the Kinki Region, a movie I loved! after Noroi, I wanted something like that, and man, this one didn't disappoint! the ending isn't the best, but overall what a great movie
