Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena
| 30 May 2000 (USA)
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In a loose retelling of the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Academy, only to be immediately swept up in a series of duels for the hand of her classmate Anthy Himemiya and the power she supposedly holds. At the same time, Utena reunites with Touga Kiryuu, a friend from her childhood who seems to know the secrets behind the duels. Utena must discover those secrets for herself, before the power that rules Ohtori claims her and her friends, new and old.

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John M.C.S

Utena is a title that goes beyond an institute within the grades that put your consideration in this particular film, which I mean, There is a part where Utena took the sword chest of Anthy in the first duel; states that Utena frees Anthy from the yoke of previous sexual Winner,Saijonji.All the characters in the film have problems related to sexuality, own adolescence: Utena has enormous emotional vacuum, which makes it sometimes confuse your feelings; Anthy feels guilty for the death of God, his brother, Akio, the degree of left manipulate and to a certain extent abuse it; Touga was a child raped by a man, Juri is a lesbian girl, repressed by society, Saionji is an inappropriate social Miki and Kozue face incestuous a problem, stemming from a possessive love; Shiori is a girl who woke up pretty soon their sexuality, and it is quite early, not to mention being by the death of his Prince and know that it is desired by another woman ... Akio is a man incomplete from the point of view inside, and looking to fill this vacuum with sex ...Has no filler, the animation is fine, the aesthetics is surprising: the poses shadow of girls, until the color of hair and eyes of Utena have a meaning ... the movie is a journey of opium, is full of symbolism and what you suggest for "real" is not always so. Adding insult to injury is the most confusing climax scene in the entire history of anime (!). It is described as a metaphor for one must leave the comfortable but at the same time confusing world of adolescence (Represented by the school Ohtori).

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Lennart Regebro

I got interested in this movie because somebody had made a beautiful video for Björks "Bachelorette" with clips from it. So I watched the movie. And it is indeed stuningly beautiful. A masterpiece of animation.Unfortunately, the story doesn't keep up. It starts out well, with interesting plotlines about people fencing for the possession of the Rose Bride, but suddenly elevators fill up with water and looses their walls, people float away, and finally for no reason whatsoever, Utena is tranformed into a car, and a highspeed chase ensues.I like much Anime for it's ability to make alternative universes, but this universe is just stupid. If you are gonna watch this movie, turn of the sound, it's better that way.

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staryub

Adolescence Mokushiroku (Adolescence Apocalypse) is an amazing movie that require the viewer to have at least a passing knowledge of the Utena series and who the characters are or what it means to be who. But only vaguely. The characters in the movie are variably different from their series counterparts (especially Akio) and it takes a clear mindframe to comprehend the movie.The surrealistic setting with a constantly-moving school and blackboards allows the characters to seem even more imaginary and set apart from reality. Although the big finale of the film is probably the most critiqued part of it, it is a true reason that Ikuhara doesn't give credit to. *semi-spoilers* The amazing chase scene with the Utena-car and the Shiori-car and all those other strange vehicles is one of the most stunning and incomprehensible movie scenes ever. But the essence of the metaphor of driving and the ability to move forward is constant with the film's central message of growth.And as far as the yuri/shoujo-ai kiss between Utena and Anthy at the end goes, it's nothing that wasn't deeply hinted at during the series (it shows what would happen if Utena and Anthy stuck their heads forward a little bit farther during the opening sequence... of course, it's also a bit different anywa)... But it's still a beautiful story that should be appreciated outside the series.

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galensaysyes

Is there a rule that feature versions of anime series have to be incomprehensible? This one plays almost like an outtake reel, and at first I thought the DVD player had scrambled the chapters. It's even more obscure than A Girl in Gaea. I enjoyed the series a lot, but was disappointed in the plainness of its art. I'd always thought that it deserved something more ornate. And here it's got it, all right: the movie looks like surrealistic French comics. However, the plot is compressed, like the Reader's Digest version of "Gone with the Wind" as imagined by Mad magazine ("Fiddle-de-dee!" said Scarlett. Bang! "Thank God that bloody war is over"). The movie can't seem to keep its mind on its subject. A lot of it is showing off by the animators, the characters and plot elements are poorly introduced, and most of them are dropped before the end. The big secret that Anthy is keeping, or half-keeping, is lost. I also missed the ritual of the Absolute Destiny Apocalypse. And I thought it was a big mistake was to make the entire setting phantasmagoric; that just makes it more difficult to keep the meanings in focus. And I didn't understand what the movie was doing with Utena. I've seen the manga, and there she seemed to be the same character as in the series; here I didn't get her at all, either in the writing or in the drawing, and I didn't much like the way they drew her in any case. I also didn't like the overt sexuality. The story had more meaning, as well as more appeal, when this was kept ambiguous. But what a great movie this could have been!

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