this is my favourite film and i think it is perfect. unlike virtually any other film i can name and i never watch this film and think it would have been better if they would changed this or that or whatever. is this the definition of a work of art. i think so. every brushstroke in mishima is perfect and it all flows from the schrader script. i have always sort of liked paul schrader work (you can not argue with taxi driver and light sleeper is an amazing film) and but while his writing often seems to border on the bombastic and his directing style is usually non existent. this is deliberate and i think and because his films usually deal with a search for redemption and are set in the real world while ugly and harsh. his style suits his themes as he presents his characters in a simple and realistic way and and lets them show the audience the truth of the situation. imagine if schrader had directed taxi driver or bringing out the dead and instead of scorsese. but like the protagonists of those two films and while mishima the man was ideal schrader material and right wing and vain and at odds with society and his works were subtle and beautiful. in fact he had a secondary writing career as a woman writer and churning out what can reasonably be described as romantic potboilers. so you do not necessarily imagine that schrader was the ideal man to capture that subtlety and beauty on film. i think the film shows that he was. the script he helped fashion splits mishima the man into three parts while his life and his death and his mind. his life is represented in black and white and still camera and formal compositions. his death and for which he will always be best remembered and is handheld documentary style. and his mind is represented by the dramatised extracts from his novels and each one revealing the thought processes of this complex man and who hardly ever wrote a character that wasn not a reflection of himself. these dramatisations are beautiful to look at and thanks to eiko ishioka remarkable production design and schrader imaginative staging. in all parts and the acting is superb and especially from ken ogata as mishima and who captures the essential charm and arrogance and narcissism of the man. the photography is excellent throughout and contains images that the viewer will retain forever. finally and the music is simply superb and perfectly matching the images and although written and recorded before shooting and adjusted during the editorial process and then re recorded. how much the music influenced the shoot i do not know and but it bonds perfectly to the image. i have seen many ideas of what various people think the theme of the film is and what schrader is trying to say. you know and the big stuff about life and death etc. but i do not think the film is saying anything. mishima has already said it and the film simply repeats. 
this is my favourite film and i think it is perfect. unlike virtually any other film i can name and i never watch this film and think it would have been better if they would changed this or that or whatever. is this the definition of a work of art. i think so. every brushstroke in mishima is perfect and it all flows from the schrader script. i have always sort of liked paul schrader work (you can not argue with taxi driver and light sleeper is an amazing film) and but while his writing often seems to border on the bombastic and his directing style is usually non existent. this is deliberate and i think and because his films usually deal with a search for redemption and are set in the real world while ugly and harsh. his style suits his themes as he presents his characters in a simple and realistic way and and lets them show the audience the truth of the situation. imagine if schrader had directed taxi driver or bringing out the dead and instead of scorsese. but like the protagonists of those two films and while mishima the man was ideal schrader material and right wing and vain and at odds with society and his works were subtle and beautiful. in fact he had a secondary writing career as a woman writer and churning out what can reasonably be described as romantic potboilers. so you do not necessarily imagine that schrader was the ideal man to capture that subtlety and beauty on film. i think the film shows that he was. the script he helped fashion splits mishima the man into three parts while his life and his death and his mind. his life is represented in black and white and still camera and formal compositions. his death and for which he will always be best remembered and is handheld documentary style. and his mind is represented by the dramatised extracts from his novels and each one revealing the thought processes of this complex man and who hardly ever wrote a character that wasn not a reflection of himself. these dramatisations are beautiful to look at and thanks to eiko ishioka remarkable production design and schrader imaginative staging. in all parts and the acting is superb and especially from ken ogata as mishima and who captures the essential charm and arrogance and narcissism of the man. the photography is excellent throughout and contains images that the viewer will retain forever. finally and the music is simply superb and perfectly matching the images and although written and recorded before shooting and adjusted during the editorial process and then re recorded. how much the music influenced the shoot i do not know and but it bonds perfectly to the image. i have seen many ideas of what various people think the theme of the film is and what schrader is trying to say. you know and the big stuff about life and death etc. but i do not think the film is saying anything. mishima has already said it and the film simply repeats. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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