Deconstruction of a typical anti-Japanese Internet screed

More archival forum work...

Them, on the film "Love Exposure":

At this stage I began to realize how much Japanese youth probably feel resentful of the strictures of their own society and have an inarticulate awareness of the failure of authority as represented by the father figures in the film, institutional religion (represented by Catholicism) alternative religions (the Zero Church being a thin cipher for Aum Shinri Kyo), and possibly even the shallowness of their own pop culture. Prior to that, of course, you have the nationalism of WW2. So - without giving too much away for people who haven't seen this film - the profoundly humanistic tone of the actual text of 1 Corinthians 13 and the way in which the movie offers an alternative to the failed Japanese Dream via its recognition and acceptance of dysfunctionality really got to me. I could put this less intellectually and much more directly but in doing so it would give the reader too much of an indication of how this film is going to end. Lastly, my understanding of Japanese society is that it is partly about the impossible task trying to be the perfect son, the perfect father, the perfect daughter, the perfect member of society etc. so I loved the anti-perfectionistic, anti-Confucian and anti-utopian thrust of the film.

Having re-read this post, it sounds to me that I have written something that just comes across like a badly composed Film Studies essay.

Me:

Not really, it just seems to be the same regurgitated "look how bad those Orientals' inferior culture really is!" propaganda circulated for the past 100 years or so. It could've easily come directly from a "professional" film review. (Although the attempt to link modern Japanese "pop culture" to the propaganda staple of "evil traditional Confucianism" is pretty comical.)

Nonetheless, thanks for the review, as if it's remotely accurate I'll know to forever avoid this film.