This haunting debut by the youthful multitalent Gizzy Duststar captures the spirit, the raw energy, passion, and unscripted verbal brilliance not only of the generation and society - that is, the young Japanese-Austrian-community - it depicts, but, in fact, of any generation and society, no matter where or when, that truly seeks to enjoy life at the fullest.
A representative series of scenes serves to illustrate the struggles of the protagonists, and is at the same time presented in a form so imminently watchable, that the portraitistic tour-de-force of the material almost disappears beneath the glossy surface of endlessly enjoyable situations, sets and sceneries.
Long after you have watched the movie will you find yourself thinking of the central characters, not only in terms of visual recollections - though those are vivid enough - but also as flesh-and-blood beings, imbued by the filmmaking talents of the directress with more life than it may be justified to suppose they could or indeed do possess in real life.
A monument of gigantic proportions that is at once a milestone in the history of movies and a gravestone for the outmoded worldview of the preceding generations. With these fresh perspectives in mind, one shall not be able to go back to ordinary filmmaking as if nothing had happened. This, more than anything else, testifies to the prodigious talent of the directrix and her magnum opus that is her debut, "Just On The Same Tray".
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