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Title: too much pretentious
Review: This film is a failure, I think because surely it's based over a complex novel. Cinema is good for action and image, but surely has his limits. I don't know the original book of Mishima, but all these is evident. The movie show us, not one, but two stories and truly there's no much cohesion between the two: the children's gang and his chief -a little Hitler-, and the history of the widow and the sailor. These two tales doesn't attain to make a full unity, but remains as two different histories without no much relation though full of pretentions and false steticism. Probably at his time -1976- this movie was very daring owing the nudes of Sarah Miles, but this is another tale.
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