The defence The Sentimental Softie
“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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Earthquake Bird
Drama · Mystery · Romance · 2019
Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography.
Movie details
Earthquake Bird
“Look beyond what you see”
2019 Drama · Mystery · Romance 1h 47m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
5.9 / 10
Community rating
Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Earthquake Bird?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Wash Westmoreland
Written by
Wash Westmoreland
Alicia Vikander
Lucy Fly
Riley Keough
Lily Bridges
Naoki Kobayashi
Teiji Matsuda
Kiki Sukezane
Natsuko
Yoshiko Sakuma
Mrs. Yamamoto
Ken Yamamura
Det. Oguchi
Kazuhiro Muroyama
Det. Kameyama
Court is in session
Put Earthquake Bird on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.