Film Review - Monster
Hirokazu Kore-eda crafts an intriguing, compassionate, multi-perspective mystery drama
Films that repeat the same story from three different perspectives are nothing new in cinema. Yet with Monster, director Hirokazu Kore-eda, who made the excellent I Wish (2011) and Shoplifters (2018), breathes new life into this Rashomon-esque template. Not that this is thematically akin to Rashomon (1951), nor does it interrogate the n…
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