Daughter of an Iguana

A very interesting piece of work. Basically a psychological drama with elements of fantasy, only I wonder if the fantasy was a metaphorical expression of a pathological relationship between a mother and daughter or maybe some psychological disorder...? Even though it may look like just an ordinary school drama/romance with a naively well-behaved protagonist, I would say it has psychological implications that kept me thinking for a long time after I finished it. Maybe I'm just seeing something in it that wasn't there, but I still have a little worm gnawing at the back of my mind cowhat were the filmmakers trying to say?. What I have to pick up on is the beautiful Japanese everyone was speaking. They were so easy to understand, they didn't say anything unnecessarily complicated, and that had a very pleasant effect on me. It was interesting that most of the characters weren't just empty archetypes, weren’t just Potemkin villages. I didn't feel the urge to get particularly attached to them, but their behavior, their decisions didn't strike me as outrageous the way they usually do in series like this. My favorite character ended up being Rika's father, he was both a beacon and a safe haven for his entire family. The story isn't exactly a phenomenon, but it's got something to offer. Plus, I got to see the young Miho Kanno and Okada Yoshinori here, which were extra points in its favor. The series is, in a word: interesting. (05/21/2014)