Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ<p>Guilty of Romance (恋の罪 Koi no Tsumi) - Japanese Cut</p><p>From 2011, directed by Sion Sono. An astonishing film that explores the limits of human understanding through the multifaceted lens of desire, meaning, sex and death. It pivots on the poem On My Way Home by Ryūichi Tamura. </p><p>On My Way Home by Ryūichi Tamura</p><p>I should never have learned words<br>how much better off I’d be<br>if I lived in a world<br>where meanings didn’t matter,<br>the world with no words</p><p>If beautiful words take revenge against you<br>it’s none of my concern<br>If quiet meanings make you bleed<br>it also is none of my concern</p><p>The tears in your gentle eyes<br>the pain that drips from your silent tongue –<br>I’d simply gaze at them and walk away<br>if our world had no words</p><p>In your tears<br>is there meaning like the core of a fruit?<br>In a drop of your blood<br>is there a shimmering resonance of the evening glow<br>of this world’s sunset?</p><p>I should never have learned words<br>Simply because I know Japanese and bits of a foreign tongue<br>I stand still inside your tears<br>I come back alone into your blood</p><p><a href="https://soulvlog.blogspot.com/2019/09/guilty-of-romance-koi-no-tsumi-japanese.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">soulvlog.blogspot.com/2019/09/</span><span class="invisible">guilty-of-romance-koi-no-tsumi-japanese.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Surrealism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sex</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fetish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fetish</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Power</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kafka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kafka</span></a></p>