do we prefer the facts or the story?

[kotatsuneko]

Death in the snow

A body is found in the frozen North Dakota woods. The cops say the dead Japanese woman was looking for the $1m she saw buried in the film Fargo. But the story didn't end there.

I went to North Dakota to make a film about Takako's "true story" for Channel 4. My idea was to reconstruct the last week of Takako's life using still photographs, mixed with some digital video, in a kind of contemporary response to Chris Marker's legendary 1964 film roman short, La Jetée. I was going to interview the people she encountered along the way, hoping to excavate the real story and the real person beneath the urban myth. The interesting thing - or what I hoped would be interesting - was that the eyewitnesses would then recreate those encounters on film, "playing" themselves across from an actress playing Takako.

maybe this has been posted/discussed before, if so, soz..

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

I read the whole story a few pictures would of been nice. But this sounds like a very elaborate way to commit sucide. If anybody has ever contimplated it. The usualy look for the quickist way out of a desperat situation. Flying halfway accross the world doesnt sound so easy. And all that time thinking about wether you should go through with it or not.

But at the same time, I am not trying to sound sexist. But a lot of women that try and commit sucide do so out of a lact of attention. An it is an effective way of getting it, for the wrong reasons ofcourse. B ut just to sit down in the cold sounds a bit David Blaine.

[cstaylor]

Well, I don't think the salarymen who throw themselves in front of the morning rush hour train are looking for the quiet way out either.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Well, I don't think the salarymen who throw themselves in front of the morning rush hour train are looking for the quiet way out either.

But their actions are irreversible. While a woman taking a load of pain killers and phoning her friends are reversible. The person jumping in front of a train has nothing to live for. While the person with the elaborate plan that could be easily stopped, is living for the need of attention.

[GomiGirl]

But their actions are irreversible. While a woman taking a load of pain killers and phoning her friends are reversible. The person jumping in front of a train has nothing to live for. While the person with the elaborate plan that could be easily stopped, is living for the need of attention.

Actually a friend of mine saw a jumper a few weeks ago at Shinjuku Station.. he was alive when they pulled him off the tracks.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Actually a friend of mine saw a jumper a few weeks ago at Shinjuku Station.. he was alive when they pulled him off the tracks.[/quote]

Was it a wooley jumper lol... any seriously where did he jump from the bridge of takashimaya or inside at the platform. Did a train roll over him or did he hide under the platform in the crawl space. I am very interested . I have often thought of jumping off a platform to the crawl space underneath the platform. In a big crown just before the train came.