It feels wrong saying this, but this movie is pretty goddamn perfect

A story does not have to be original to be perfect.

I know this movie gets criticized all the time, but I think I love it. I saw it once and loved it. Fast forward to about a year and a half later, when my Japanese class began watching it - only on Fridays. We're about two thirds of the way through the film.

Of course, knowing how great the movie is, I HAD to watch it at home when I first heard that our class was going to watch it. Then I watched it again. Then parts of it again. Then we saw it in class.

I've seriously seen the film 6-7 times - not in its entirety every time, but I've seen it entirely 2-3 times - in the past 2 weeks and I am NOT tired of it. In fact, today in class we watched the second third of the film - starting right after Algren gets his ass kicked by Ujio, through the ninja attack, through the Tokyo scenes, and ending right when Katsumoto's son dies. Everyone has absolutely loved it, and thus I am not tired of it one bit.

In fact, I'm gonna go rewatch some awesome parts again in a few minutes, especially the ninja attack. That scene was my favorite to begin with, but having everyone - especially my guy friends - watching it for the first time and just being awestruck - it was almost like watching it all over again because the people's reactions around me just made it so much better.

It's a brilliant movie, and I'm sure I'll get tired of it 2 weeks from now when we finally finish the film in class, but for now, it's fast risen to becoming one of my favorite movies and absolutely the most rewatchable film I've ever seen.

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