Map of the sounds of Tokyo

On Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 at 11:32

Sensual guide of Tokyo. map - de-los-sonidos-de-los-sonidos-de-tokio-trailer-y-poster-en-espanol

There are movies that happen for the movies rooms and so-so. They contribute nothing. They disappear soon of the publicity board and, for those that we have seen them, its prompt negligence. It is not the case of Map of the sounds of Tokyo. Desaparecen pronto de la cartelera y, para aquellos que las hemos visto, su pronto olvido. No es el caso de Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio.

The argument is based on that one so simple and ancient as small it meets girl. You put the place that they want and they will have a history to be counted. But in this case the place is attractive and it acts like a magnet: the city of Tokyo. A man. David, of Spanish origin, has a shop wines in Tokyo. It has maintained a relation with Midori who decided to commit suicide. In the opposite side there is the woman Ryu, of fragile aspect, unsociable, which works in the nights on a fish market. The beginning happens of bland form until the young woman receives an order that it will put as regards David. Pero en este caso el lugar es atractivo y actúa como un imán: la ciudad de Tokio. Un hombre. David, de origen español, tiene una tienda vinos en Tokio. Ha mantenido una relación con Midori que decidió suicidarse. En el lado opuesto está la mujer Ryu, de frágil aspecto, huraña, que trabaja por las noches en un mercado de pescado. El comienzo sucede de forma anodina hasta que la joven recibe un encargo que le pondrá en relación con David.

The scene with which it starts the movie I has been seen by me as if of a metaphor it was talking each other.

A group of businessmen is in a room ready to eat. Boisterous but with naturalness they take with its toothpicks sushi, sashimi and other delicacies that are deposited on the body of a naked woman.

The movie would be the naked woman (the map) on whom the director has been depositing its ingredients: the actors, the photo, the corners of the city of Tokyo, different events, and, all this, seasoned with sex. We would be the messmates that we enjoy these delights with good music like the ingredient that cannot be missing. Nosotros seríamos los comensales que disfrutamos esas delicias con buena música como el ingrediente que no puede faltar.

Mapofthesoundsoftokyo A good recipe is prepared by good ingredients. A few good ingredients do not guarantee a good recipe. This is what it spends in Map of the sounds of Tokyo. The director has had a few good elements but it has not managed to upset the spectator. Eso es lo que pasa en Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio. La directora ha dispuesto de unos buenos elementos pero no ha conseguido conmover al espectador.

The movie is a visual poem, and as the poetry is times that it is difficult to understand and most of the times are difficult that it pleases. Map … discovers to us a world different from ours, so attractive as exotic, but that in words of their own protagonist the men are equal of idiots in all the places.

When a recipe has remained tasteless we tend to throw salt to see if to the taste we like. I have the sensation that Coixet has done the same with its movie. It had enough ingredients as to please the spectator. But he knew that he had left tasteless and he decided for adding a happy, vacuous and meaningless end, reducing few credibility that he had left to the relation of the protagonists. Tenía suficientes ingredientes como para agradar al espectador. Pero sabía que le estaba quedando soso y se decidió por agregar un final feliz, vacuo y sin sentido, restándole la poca credibilidad que le quedaba a la relación de los protagonistas.

Nevertheless it is convenient to wander about the streets for this sensual map of Tokyo and to allow us to go for its music and its good photo to enjoy an agreeable and esthetic walk.