Cure (1997)
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
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…the last 15 minutes of “Weapons” so perfectly braids abstract psychic anxiety together with cartoon ultra-violence that it creates a sublime harmony between sketch comedy and Kiyoshi Kurosawa horror. I suddenly have a strange hankering to see The Lonely Island remake “Cure.”
In the end, this is rather like Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure (1997) – an intriguing enigma whose solution is perhaps less important than the community ills exposed along the way…
For anyone who has seen a handful of notable works in the thriller or horror genre, such as David Fincher’s Zodiac, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure or the aforementioned The Silence of the Lambs, Perkins’s screenplay will sound somewhat familiar.
Those who end up falling under Longlegs’ slow-burn spell would do well to check out director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1997 masterwork Cure, another serial killer thriller that flirts with the supernatural. However, where Cure offered startling ambiguity in place of concrete answers, Longlegs takes an unfortunate lapse into belabored exposition during its final stretch. While the reveal of what’s really happening is entertaining in the moment, it’s the kind of convoluted explanation that falls apart once you stop to think about it for more than 10 seconds.
As he did in his 1997 international breakthrough “The Cure” (“Kua”) and many films since, Kurosawa uses everyday phenomena — a breeze through untended bushes, sunlight flickering into a mildewed room — to stir feelings of unease and dread.