Amateur Recommendation Hour: Kids On The Slope
Today’s recommendation is a thematically and tonally brilliant balance of reality and idealism punctuated by its reverence for a genre of music that once swept the world over and the celebration and value of the music that makes so many of us feel so much for so many individualistically unique reasons. A depth that goes far deeper than any of us could fully comprehend in our neurological complexity and will remind us of the most vulnerable and cherished periods of our youths. Looking back on social tensions and awkward interactions with softness and warmth when experiencing them in our young minds was anything but. Foundational to helping us find self-discovery and community with each other that stands the test of time. Kids On The Slope, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, with music composed by Yoko Kanno, is a story set in 1960s Japan of a high school student, Kaoru Nishimi, from an affluent family learning how to acclimate to his new countryside surroundings and his transition from c...
