I had only the vaguest notion of what was going on at any point; the plot seemed wildly convoluted and I'm sure it didn't help that I kept kind of dozing off. They sure edited the hell out of it but everything else about it was so inaccessible to me that it became pretty dull pretty quickly. These sprawling tangled plot strands are one thing but I think what kept me most separated from the film was a complete lack of understanding of Nakadai's character, especially his relationship to his sword and other characters. I think I finally understand at a gut level the criticism of the Refn/Gosling collaborations. So I don't know, frustratingly mysterious to me; I think I'd like to watch it again soon and puzzle some of this stuff out.
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