Becoming a Chair

When this film, Tokyo! by French director Michel Gondry first premiered locally, I was having a hard day at my former job and to add to the challenge, I got into an argument with my spouse. I decided to go this film on my own as a bold act to seek inspiration. as I had long regarded films by this director such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I was deeply moved by the main character's search for her own worth, as the film took a strange turn into the surreal and absurd. She became a chair. I thought to myself well, at least to become a chair is to have a noble and useful function. I started walking towards the exit of the theater feeling therapized in a good way when I bumped into a man walking in. It was the director himself to my surprise. I had no idea there was a special Q &A at the end, so I promptly returned to my seat to take in more insight on this strange plight of transformation. To this day, I still feel the metaphor rings true and love how the magical realism genere can jolt us into deeper truths.