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Information
- Year
- 1962
- Runtime
- 33 min.
- Director
- Jûzô Itami
- Genre
- Short
- Rating *
- 5.8
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 26
- Favs
- 2
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 7.7% (1:13)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
Jûzô Itami's short Rubber Band Pistol, his first directorial effort, is somewhat aimless and I almost want to see it's for completists only, but it may just trigger something you'll find enjoyable. We're basically just spending time with a group of friends - shooting rubber bands (their main obsession), inventing gross-out menu items, thrifting, imagining their lives differently - which is, though details will differ, what friends do. If you were to bring Itami's camera into any given group of friends, including yours, the result would be a little weird. What are these odd activities and conversation topics? Who can make sense of this cross-talk and these inside jokes? What are these pre-existing personal dynamics I've just walked into, but feel apart from? Those are some of the things that came to mind watching, and necessarily reflecting on my own inner circle who I KNOW gets odd looks and frowns from co-workers asking what we did on the weekend, etc. People think we're so odd (not necessarily in a negative sense), but we find others just as weird, because all these little worlds are alien to one another. 1 year 6 months ago -
