Comments on: Win Free Tickets To Tokyo!

By: Burns!

Burns! — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:15:49 +0000

Thanks to everyone who played along. All great responses, and I love that you guys make it so hard to pick a winner. The winner has been notified via email.

For everyone who didn’t get that email, I still definitely recommend seeing the film. It opens this Friday, March 20, at the Nuart in West L.A., as well as the Edwards Westpark 8 Cinema in Irvine. I recommend the 7:15pm screening on Friday at the Nuart, as Ayako Fujitani (star of Gondry’s “Interior Design”) will be there to introduce the film.

By: jeshii

jeshii — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:35:13 +0000

I was gonna make a case to get those tickets, but I can’t beat jporath’s reasoning. I love Gondry, but I never knew “Bong” was a name until now. And when I lived in Japan, I was the exact opposite of a hikikomori. So again, jporath deserves those tickets was more than I do.

By: expertobenigni

expertobenigni — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:42:29 +0000

I paid to see Be Kind, Rewind at the theater. Yes.

By: neonspecs

neonspecs — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:00:06 +0000

wooo, movies.

By: Burns!

Burns! — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:16:15 +0000

Y’all are doing it to me again. These are all great responses, but (AFAIK) I only have one pair of tickets to give away. It’s going to be tough to pick a winner…again! Keep ‘em coming, though. You’re all making very compelling cases. I love it!

@jporath: Thank you for sharing your story. I am very sorry for your loss. Not a happy ending, but you have memorialized your friend well.

By: keekle

keekle — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:58:25 +0000

Thank you for playing THE HOST to this ticket contest, I’d love to win because I have MEMORIES OF MURDER when it has come to losing past contests. I’d like to see TOKYO! because, of course, it’s HUMAN NATURE to enjoy winning a prize, but also because this triptych offers something more than the usual BOY MEETS GIRL Hollywood MERDE that induces in me a desire to close my eyes and study THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP.
If I win, I’ll be trembling like LOVERS ON A BRIDGE as I watch the movie unspooling through THE ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF A SPOTLESS MIND (i.e. mine.) and enjoy a head SHAKING TOKYO trip through the exterior and INTERIOR DESIGN of a unique city. If you prefer someone else’s entry, please BE KIND REWIND to the top of my post and give me a second chance. Anyway, however you decide, no BAD BLOOD here. I may be verbose, but I am a nice guy – after all, BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE.

-keekle

By: jporath

jporath — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:49:18 +0000

Okay, let me give it a shot.

First off: I work in the film industry and am a huge Gondry fan. Got the Palm Pictures DVD the day it came out, etc etc.

Second: I have first-hand hikikomori experience. I lived in Japan for awhile, and am conversationally fluent (actually had a Japanese-language-only dinner party at my place on Saturday). While there, I made friends with a guy who, if not for his overbearing mother, would have been a hikikomori. My friends and I were, to our knowledge, his only friends.

After we moved back home, he killed himself.

Story here: http://jasonporath.com/blog/2008/05/maa-kun/

So, to put it lightly, hikikomori is a topic close to my heart.

By: lenoroc

lenoroc — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:31:33 +0000

Gondry and Japan? Damn!
Let’s put it this way, I knew what “hikikomori” meant before this article.

By: javajunkee

javajunkee — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:59:13 +0000

Count me in. I’m a fan of both Japan and triptychs…

By: turtlejp

turtlejp — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:56:54 +0000

Let’s see. Well the JP in my user name is from .jp. I am addicted to Tokyo and go there annually. It’s been in my Netflix queue since it was released in Japan. And the best reason is that I have been bed ridden for the last week and need something to do once I start feeling better.

That and I can probably totally relate to all of the films on a different level.