Title: THE TRANSCENDENT WORD
Product review: In the strict and rigidly defined gender roles of women in feudal, Imperial Japan, one solace women had were their "pillow books", journals where they could pour out their thoughts, yearnings, fears and hopes. This beautiful movie is a modern "pillow book", one woman's attempt to define herself in a world where traditional definitions are falling away. All around her, the main character watches in pain and confusion as her world changes, falls apart, reconstitutes itself and falls away, again and again. The transcendent thread of continuity is The Word, the beautiful calligraphy of language; time passes, the world changes, The Word remains. In The Word the woman finds her definition, her hope and...even her revenge. This incredible film is a celebration of the Magic and Salvation of Language, one woman's amazing strength, and the Immortality of The Written Word.
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