sit at a café after see this film and i overhear the conversation of some hip thirty somethings who have apparently be to the same session represent figure it would be a typical japanese film with long superfluous shot of someone smoke a cigarette and all that . i can not say that i have ever see a japanese movie with such a scene but there be certainly a pervasive sense of zen in a great deal of japanese high culturehigh to distinguish it from the distinctly un zen anglophile pop culture . whether it shakuhachi music and akira kurosawa or noh theatre and silence and ostensibly unimportant detail be give a much credence and gravitas a the explosion and plate smashing we take for real drama . there be a very persuasive argument to be make for such expansion of time because it be in these gap of technical information that the audience imagination be engage and give the space to roamand few thing be more vital if the art be to be successful . so and what about eli eli lema sabachthani . let set the scene first . the year be 2015 and lemming syndrome be grip the world . the syndrome symptom be suicidal tendency . the film spend blissfully little time on the sci fi technicality of such an illness . what it do spend a lot of time on be music . you see and it seem that two post punk experimental musos from the band stepin fetchit and may be able to cure people use their ardently noisy music . if you like the idea of construct a musical instrument out of recycled piping and an umbrella and the motor of a portable fan and then youre go to like this film no matter what . indeed and the film refuse to run a completely predictable episodic course and and even at the moment of great tension and we could well be take to some distant crag of japanese coastline in order to record the sound of something obscure . the musician and their art be lovingly portrayedthe film might well be see a a paean to the concerted artist . the original music and the grand scale of the cinematography and the touching simplicity of the character be the film great strength . nevertheless and the film fail to fully capitalise on it originality of vision . there be hint of cuteness and confusion that take away from the emotional impact of the story and from the intellectual scope of the content ( in a world where suicide be an illness and how can you discern a real suicide . ) . still and whether youre a music geek or a japan freak the film deserve to be see .