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daishin
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Zen Noir (2004)
neither zen nor noir, but a crude dumbing-down of each.
12 October 2006 - 11 out of 21 users found this review helpful.
Relentlessly revisits all the clichés and avoids subtleties. Could have been both amusing and evocative, but misses both by a mile. Too bad.
Acting: one-dimensional Direction: self-indulgent Music: intrusive, pretentious Writing: a series of sketches without overall coherence. Bad SNL quality.
The reliance on cheap sight-gags and the apparent unfamiliarity of cast and director with actual Zen practice left this viewer wishing there had been a more thorough effort to capture the flavor and rhythms of an actual zendo.
For a far more successful - and funny - movie in a zen setting, see "Enlightenment Guaranteed".
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