An acrylic painting on wood panel, titled 'Bright Future', of a superimposed figure and jellyfish pouring the flames of a roman candle into a city waterway below. In the water are many small pink glowing lights.

Bright Future

(2003, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

I watched this movie long ago and I remember not liking it so much. At that time I was obsessed with Tadanobu Asano and I was disappointed that his role in the movie was short. But I gave it another chance recently and now I love the movie! I was too young to understand it back then. The movie is about these guys that are confused about the role of work in their lives but have found purpose through a poisonous jellyfish that Asano keeps as a pet. The plot starts to get boring in the second half but I perked right up when the jellyfish shows up again. It’s hard to explain why it excited me, maybe just the music. The jellyfish itself is not too important, I think it’s just something shiny and alluring that keeps these men motivated to live.


A wide screenshot from the film 'Bright Future' of two men, Yuji and Mamoru, looking into the camera anxiously. An animated gif of a close-up scene from the film 'Bright Future' of Yuji staring at a jellyfish swimming in a home aquarium. A wide screenshot of a man walking along a city waterway that is full of bright pink lights floating by. From the movie 'Bright Future'.

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