Eureka (2000)

MOVIE #1,634 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.14.24 It's insane to say a nearly four-hour film is underdeveloped but the plotline surrounding the serial killings (and the eventual reveal) is. Of course, one's expectations for this can't be parsed through typical movie logic. I also think the cultural divide plays a part: as an American I want to unpack this in some sociocultural way (re: the violence), when in reality it's abstract and symbolic. This is a story about grief and redemption, and while the inciting act and subsequent (aforementioned) subplot are incredibly violent, it's not a film about violence. To kill is but one way to destroy a life and Eureka only seeks to marinate in the destruction, the aftermath, what the destroyed person does or doesn't do with their broken existence. This has been the rare 24T that delivered immensely with both entries, and I’m also adding Shinji Aoyama to the list.

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Eureka is a 2000 Japanese drama film written and directed by Shinji Aoyama. It stars Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, and Masaru Miyazaki. It won the FIPRESCI Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. It was released on January 20, 2000.