With Maiko, somewhere in 2018. I had watched the movie, and she told me that she had been to the places in the movie. We were sleepless as well. I've always liked sleeplessness, defiant agaisnt death, a conscious dream. Irrelevant things and words come up. No time's passing. Solid. But the days are gone, and I miss you. In a movie that I used to like, and all the movies that I used to have liked. In them I miss many things, including the futrue, a dog, and the past. But just like the nights the future will be another's too; Melbournian evenings, streets warm and far away and the river quietly sinking; I dive deep, lights blinking, my white table kills, namelessly, a city's doomed fate.
Being set in Japan offers a beautiful analogy of being in the world that is so different from yourself where you stand out and being unable to communicate with it. People who consider it to be racist must have missed it. Seeing this as making fun of Japanese/Asian culture and American/White superiority arrogance is a bit of a paranoia. Great movie.