Today's youth is irreversibly "techno-fetishist", and that IS NOT completely bad.To them, it is the ether that keeps them alive and heals them after being emotionally wounded, concepts also present in Lily's dreamy lyrics.īoth elements, apart from being beautifully crafted and grandiloquent, succeed in materializing what Iwai wants us to elarn from the movie. The messages involve students talking about how only Lily has the ether, a core concept of the movie. I'll clarify: the two biggest aesthetic elements that make the movie a standout are the original soundtrack (made by Lily Chou-Chou, a fictional yet real pop singer inspired by Björk and Chungking Express' Faye Wong) and the web messages that Iwai represents by showing them in a full black screen (some directly extracted from a online forum dedicated to the light novel that the director released just before the film). but, for me, all of the splendour this movie has resides in the way it conveys ethical statements via aesthetical design. Obviously, the film, released in 2001, has many characteristics to discuss: characters, plot, soundtrack, colour scheme. Since I wrote a medium-sized essay/article in my native tongue (Spanish, I can share it with anyone interested in it) I'd like to talk with you guys about this movie, specially after seeing it the r/truefilm canon!
Anyone that knows me is aware of my devotion towards Shunji Iwai, the person behind the masterpiece All About Lily Chou-Chou.
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