- Takashi Miike’s White-Collar Worker Kintaro (aka Salaryman Kintaro)
You never know what you’re going to retain from a movie. It could be the story, a theme, or one of the characters. Or it might be something smaller—an image or a line of dialogue. Coming out of it you decided you were unimpressed by the film as a whole, but later on you find parts of it occupying your thoughts as you might crumbs in a pants pocket. Several times in the past month I’ve been visited by a fragment of narration from I Am Breathing, a documentary I reviewed at the beginning of the year. Neil Platt, the movie’s subject, briskly recounts his adult life before getting diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease in his early 30s. In his late 20s he got married, he says, then he and his wife “spent a few years drinking” until the bad news came.
Ben Sachs writes about moviegoing every Monday.
