"Maybe I'm writing here because I wanna shout, 'I'm here!'" a user writes on the Lily Chou-Chou fansite. Silently, Shiori dips her head and rests it on Yūichi's shoulder, the two of them bonded in their unhappiness and in the temporary relief of this transcendent music.
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Still, I think about the tender moments that are scattered throughout this relentless movie which speak to that connection that art and technology can sometimes make, like when Yūichi gives a distraught Shiori his earbud and they listen to Lily Chou-Chou's music together while on the train home. That messy, unclear divide between the art that saves you and the obsessions that hurt you becomes even more blurred in "All About Lily Chou-Chou," a film that at the time of its release was criticized for its frustrating ambiguity. Because of this, the internet - which at this point in time, was treated with so much paranoia - becomes a kind of balm and lifeline for of Yūichi, even as it isolates him further. The totality with which the users speak and the apathy through which they view the world feels fitting for the angst of the teenage experience (where everything seems like the end of the world) but can barely match up with the dark realities of Yūichi's life. "The world has already ended," a user known as Blue Cat writes. There's nothing more unifying or terrifyingly isolating like the internet, which provides the ominous connective tissue for "All About Lily Chou-Chou." Throughout the film's hefty 2 hour 20 minute runtime, flashes of the message board take over the screen, as the fan site's users gush over their idol and the "ether" through which she communicates - Lily Chou-Chou's term for the transcendent place from which her music is born, and where she seeks to bring her fans - and speak of the emptiness of life in increasingly nihilistic terms.
And in a way, it was painfully prescient. In this case, the fictional chanteuse Lily Chou-Chou (whose singing voice is provided by real Japanese musical artist Salyu), whose entire appeal is that her real face has never been seen. "All About Lily Chou-Chou" posits that there are few things tying us together in the world - not emotional connection, not friendship, not family - except for a shared, almost overzealous love of a thing or a person.
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