my favorite thing about dodes'ka-den is that no matter the material look of everybody, they are still poor. its a film that may not have an answer to poverty but it does have answers as a way to combat it and thats human connections and imagination.
most of its characters are all connected through these two things and i find the former interesting because we all wanna be aproachable and look "normal" and some inherentely don't care but even tho i wouldn't say that movies concerned with poverty aren't doing this, they just rarely do anything interesting with it because its mostly just the same shtick of poor people dress with clothes covered in filth.
each and every one of these individuals have unique sense of material identities and if not then they are either friends or part of a group in the story so its simple costume design but very, VERY effective.
the camera and shots are drawn out with minimal cutting which makes everything slow and to an extend that cannot work with the indiviuals stories but to be fair, it also helps to melt inside of the collective misery.
(watch my films:
the grievance of the day: https://boxd.it/eD8Suj
summer walk: https://boxd.it/ewenRP )
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