Word: soundtracks
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...brothers (who are actually former Siamese twins) are obsessed with death; they inflict their grief on the audience by taking elaborate, stop-action films of dead animals decaying. With cheerful music playing on the soundtrack, we watch crocodiles, dalmatians, zebras, tropical fish and the rest of Noah's Ark decompose before our eyes...
...best things in Komachi do not happen on stage--images flashed across a large screen at the back of the stage and voices and music on the soundtrack are more powerful than the acting. Using these three elements, Banks' prelude starts off his production in excellent form...
...stage is dressed in stark white, the screen shows bizarre close-ups of fish, and the soundtrack makes it sound as if these fish are screaming every time they open their mouths to breathe. A propulsive and eerie score is then joined by a multi-voiced reading of the Austrian writer Peter Handke's Prophecy. A series of isolated and unpleasant predictions like "the flies will die like flies, the open wound will fester like an open wound" echo throughout the theater...
...word of caution. Prince wrote the soundtrack for this movie. Prince stars in this movie. Prince directed this movie. If you don't like Prince, don't see this movie...
...someone that knows music so well, it's surprising that Prince's biggest mistake as a director lies with the soundtrack. There's not enough of it. The popular songs off the soundtrack album, like `Kiss' and `New Position' are limited to the background and often stripped of lyrics. There is a surreal performance of `Mountains' as the credits roll, but it's too late. We're already angry because there wasn't enough concert footage...