Source France | Publisher : Spectrum Films | Release date : 08 December 2023
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 1.85
Dolby Vision / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
Japanese DTS-HD MA 2.0
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 8 | Audio : 8
It is brought to the attention of our dear readers that, in addition to the specified and used viewing equipment, the rendering may differ from one installation to another, whether or not it is calibrated, as well as personal preferences and expectations may influence notation. Moreover, the images in the article are not representative of the edition tested.
Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Sony Bravia XR-65A95L (Dolby Dark Vision)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar (DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
WORK - The circle of dead suicides
54 high school girls throwing themselves under the wheels of the Tokyo subway, a website prophesying collective suicides, a ribbon made up of several hundred squares of human skin found by the police, a girls band of teenage girls singing a pop with very ambiguous lyrics... What wind of madness is blowing on the Japanese capital?
While the openly suicidal good word of an unbearable girls band prepubère infiltrates into the daily life of a consumerist collective in deficit of social bond, Sono Sion questions the true meaning of freedom, not without humorous provocation. And if this satire of pop culture (where false idols can very quickly become true prophets) goes in all senses, it is because it is meant to be a zapping of the evils of Japanese society, threatened by the delicacy, whose desperate search for relationships passes through suicide, become a tendency to practice (with this will to get closer to its fellows) in the same way as a new form of entertainment to consume. So forget the police plot and rather watch the social experience (as graphic as it is). Three... two... one... Jump!
IMAGE - Disoriented Society
Resulting from a 4K restoration of the original negative 16 mm supervised and approved by the director, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer with skillful encoding does not mask anything from the wet and Malaysian photograph signed Kazuto Sato.
The definition makes a (small) leap forward without distorting (point of artificial reinforcement of contours) the little sharpness of the cinematography (details are not really refined) or even the lesser resolution of certain planes and the (strong) granular texture, fluctuating by nature (among other things in the elevator), gives the impression of having been faithfully transcribed.
The colors so far altered (the DVD suffered from too much green and orange) are now brighter and more natural (blood, carnation, skies, etc.) even if those of the Blu-ray are a little less precise and the dark tone that covers the place, sometimes counterbalanced by increased intensity lighting (the ceiling lights in the metro), benefits from a significantly enlarged range of contrasts that deepens the blacks (still a little soft though the other way around) and gives the whites the training (school uniforms).
SON - Make a Change... Kill Yourself
Little disturbing but atmospheric to wish, this more subtle stereophonic soundtrack (the majority of noises come to life with measured discretion) than demonstrative (with a few exceptions as when blood violently splashes the metro train) excels in the acoustic separation of the various elements that compose it... At least in VO.
The composer's score Tomoki Hasegawa There is no lack of eloquence, the effects like the atmospheres are well reproduced by the auditory scene (the crowd on the subway dock, the students in the educational institution), the frontal dynamics are expressly frank (this is notable when Genesis pushes the song) and the voices, of certain clarity, are neither stifled nor drowned.
Less deep (the medium took a blow) and more rough (the harmony is unbalanced), the VF also 2.0 seems to have lost moulted sound information as it passed (but where have most distant sounds passed?) since the horrific dubbing with deaf sounds takes all the place (highly put voices that encroach on the rest).
« I'm Charles Manson of the information age! ... Hi there. My name's Genesis. I was a child. »
CONCLUSION - 🔴🔴⚪🔴🔴⚪
In 2001, in a sick society populated by sheep in Panurge, an unclassifiable OFNI asked a host of questions (without definitive answers) about this death. « Voluntary » which is (unfortunately always) too much in Japan. And don't count on the present 4K Ultra HD (at the A/V Deferents) to solve the puzzle, triture the mind being part of the game of life!
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