Halloween just passed, but if you want to keep up the spooky vibe all weekend long, I thought I'd make a themed review liked I did two years ago with the novel Heads Will Roll by Joanie Chevalier.
I wanted to review a movie I've watched earlier this year, on a stormy night while on the road to Nagano prefecture and I think it combines perfectly the horror part as well as the 'dressing up' one
I wanted to review a movie I've watched earlier this year, on a stormy night while on the road to Nagano prefecture and I think it combines perfectly the horror part as well as the 'dressing up' one
Kaneki Ken is the average University student: nice, hard-working, a bit shy and clumsy when around girls...One day, while at a cafè with his friend Hideyoshi, the girl Ken has a crush on, Rize, starts talking to him and the two agree on going on a date.
Unfortunately, that's all a plot for Rize to eat Ken: yes, eat. Because Rize is a ghoul, a demon who survives eating humans. Thanks to a fluke, Ken doesn't die and wakes up in a hospital, feeling extremely hungry but unable to keep any kind of food in his stomach.
After a few painful weeks, Ken understands that he has become a 'half-ghoul' because during surgery he's been transplanted Rize's organs, so now he has to eat like one of them, but being the kind person he is, he doesn't want to harm humans.
Unfortunately, that's all a plot for Rize to eat Ken: yes, eat. Because Rize is a ghoul, a demon who survives eating humans. Thanks to a fluke, Ken doesn't die and wakes up in a hospital, feeling extremely hungry but unable to keep any kind of food in his stomach.
After a few painful weeks, Ken understands that he has become a 'half-ghoul' because during surgery he's been transplanted Rize's organs, so now he has to eat like one of them, but being the kind person he is, he doesn't want to harm humans.
By chance, he stumbles into the Anteiku cafè, run by Yoshimura san, an old-looking ghoul who thinks a cohabitation between humans and ghouls is possible and tries to spread his 'lifestyle' to the other ghouls in the city.
But the enemy is around the corner: Commission of Counter Ghoul a special task force, led by extremist Kureo Mado that, with his highly-trained pupil Kotaro Amon, aims to eradicate the ghoul species from the country.
But the enemy is around the corner: Commission of Counter Ghoul a special task force, led by extremist Kureo Mado that, with his highly-trained pupil Kotaro Amon, aims to eradicate the ghoul species from the country.
Ken now has friends and a purpose to protect so, with the help of Toka Kirishima, he tries to stand up against this task force while an epic battle between the underground streets of Tokyo explodes.
My Opinion👍👎
Tokyo Ghoul was surprisingly engaging and I'm still shocked about how much I liked it; first of all, the acting is spot on and not as overly exaggerated as in other movies and dramas I've watched.
I got to know later that the movie's based on a manga (not that it surprises me, tho!) and after reading one or two chapters I was in awe about the setting: it matches perfectly with the dark and spooky vibe that goes on throughout the entire movie.
This movie is perfect for people who like monsters' stories but with an actual plot and not just only splattered blood and ripped body parts.
What I liked the most was the switching sides: those who're supposed to be the evils and wicked just try to blend in and go unnoticed through life, while the 'good' ones are remorseless and ruthless...
For a movie I thought was going to be repetitive and nothing new to add, I've been positively proved wrong.
I got to know later that the movie's based on a manga (not that it surprises me, tho!) and after reading one or two chapters I was in awe about the setting: it matches perfectly with the dark and spooky vibe that goes on throughout the entire movie.
This movie is perfect for people who like monsters' stories but with an actual plot and not just only splattered blood and ripped body parts.
What I liked the most was the switching sides: those who're supposed to be the evils and wicked just try to blend in and go unnoticed through life, while the 'good' ones are remorseless and ruthless...
For a movie I thought was going to be repetitive and nothing new to add, I've been positively proved wrong.
I hope you all had a safe and fun Halloween and
enjoy this coming weekend as well!
UPDATED OCTOBER 2020
It DOES pass the Bechdel-Wallace test
1. There must be at least two women (and the names must be known) ✔
2. The women have to talk to each other ✔
3. The topic of conversation can be about anything except men ✔
Rating: 4/5
Ph: impawards.com
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