There are many bleak films these days, but Sinji Aoyama's maps out a hard time that perhaps is idiomatic of the way we all end up treated sometimes. Makoto a bus driver is involved in a bus hijacking along with 2 children. To cut to the chase the victim becomes the accused and despite myriad intentions to the contrary is treated pretty badly by society as a whole. If anything Eureka maps out the impetus of what forces many into the bases of traumas and the beginnings of lives on the margins. It maintains a slight from of hope in the film through only by making the bleak a cutting point for morality. A test Makoto passes more so than others. The point being the best don't always win, but at least they hold their passions through and through. Taiwanese DVD is dual-language and international code so will play anywhere. Music by Albert Ayler, Jim O'Rourke, and the director make the cut.
Eureka
(2000)
hard times and little hope make a drama all the more memorable
12 February 2006
Warning: Spoilers