Comments on: Bokurano 19 and 20 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2007/10/06/bokurano-19-and-20/ Get decultured Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:14:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Peter S http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2007/10/06/bokurano-19-and-20/#comment-27892 Peter S Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:00:25 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2007/10/06/bokurano-19-and-20/#comment-27892 Machi: "Why I happen to have just the socket you need, which looks like one you used to use to attach the printer, right here in my head, what a coincidence!" Sigh. I don't think the show is going to end as well as I had hoped. There's a loss of energy now. Even during Kanji's battle I felt it. Because it was half the battle and half the adults staring helpless at the computer monitor realizing horrible things, for far too long. The reason for the drop in energy? Simple. There are fewer protagonists now. The kids' group dynamic has left us. You can't just root for them; they're mostly gone, including my favorites, and many of the adults too. The group energy is missing. We're down to a tiny core of people and the decision Jun has to make. In the final scene of Poulenc's opera "Dialogues of the Carmalites," the entire women's chorus is chopped down one by one by the guillotine, and their group voice diminishes, but there it's used to beautiful effect: at the end you have just the single voice of one woman as she walks to the scaffold. That's not gonna happen here. Sigh. Machi: “Why I happen to have just the socket you need, which looks like one you used to use to attach the printer, right here in my head, what a coincidence!”

Sigh.

I don’t think the show is going to end as well as I had hoped.

There’s a loss of energy now. Even during Kanji’s battle I felt it. Because it was half the battle and half the adults staring helpless at the computer monitor realizing horrible things, for far too long. The reason for the drop in energy? Simple. There are fewer protagonists now. The kids’ group dynamic has left us. You can’t just root for them; they’re mostly gone, including my favorites, and many of the adults too. The group energy is missing. We’re down to a tiny core of people and the decision Jun has to make.

In the final scene of Poulenc’s opera “Dialogues of the Carmalites,” the entire women’s chorus is chopped down one by one by the guillotine, and their group voice diminishes, but there it’s used to beautiful effect: at the end you have just the single voice of one woman as she walks to the scaffold. That’s not gonna happen here.

Sigh.

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