10 April 2012
Shinji Aoyama's slow-building film is about the scars of memory left on the survivors of a bus hijacking.
It requires all your patience and concentration to share in the characters' sense of enlightenment at the end of a very long trauma initiated by the bus driver who re-enters the lives of two young and now hermetic survivors and leads them on a cathartic journey.
Part road movie and part interior drama, Eureka recalls a similarly themed film about guilt and expiation, The Sweet Hereafter, by Canadian director Atom Egoyan. Both movies offer healing, not thrills. But beware: the length may be measureless in eastern Zen, but feels like western miles.
Eureka
Cert: 15
