fuck-yeah-classic-monsters:

the-whisperer-in-darkness:

goldvsmold:

Boycott “The Forest” and watch the documentary, “Aokigahara: Suicide Forest”, instead.

Aokigahara: Suicide Forest:

• Educates viewers about Aokigahara and the issue of suicide in Japan
  
• It’s a documentary so everything stated is based on facts.

The Forest:

• Romanticizes and trivializes suicide, death and the Aokigahara forest which is a real forest in Japan where people go to commit suicide. In fact, suicides in the forest are still happening today so it is extremely disrespectful. It’s been happening for the last 30 years—over 100 bodies are found in Aokigahara every year.
• Suicide in Japan is a national crisis.
  
• The mental health stigma in Japan is horrible.
  
• The film is set in Japan but the main cast is dominantly white with a white female blonde lead. Not only that, it also doesn’t mention depression. This then leads to ableist erasure of Asian people, especially Japanese people, with mental health issues.
• The film perpetuates the model minority myth which assumes that Asians are universally intelligent or rich, are able-bodied and don’t suffer from mental illness. Everybody believes Asians are rich and smart enough to access healthcare when in fact, this isn’t true at all.
• Instead of talking about the real important issues happening today, Hollywood took the tragedies of the Aokigahara forest suicides and turned them into a Hollywood horror movie which in turn, dehumanizes not only Asians around the globe affected by mental health, but those who have already committed suicide. 
• Please do not see The Forest in the cinemas. Do not buy tickets to see it. A terrible movie does not deserve any support.

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT

I rebloged this from my personal blog but whatever, this is so important I needed to share this on this blog because it is a film related blog, and some of you may not actually be aware of this.This is so damn important, I’ve known a few people who have gone to this forest and it’s not exactly some tourist destination (they honestly went to see if they could get a better view of Fuji). So I have a few odd stories of it just not feeling right seeing people’s bags on the side and strings everywhere. All my friend’s had to report was nothing felt right and that they left pretty quickly.

 But on a serious note, educate yourself on this. 

There’s nothing to glorify here, there’s nothing cute or glorious about people going missing and killing themselves. It’s absolutely disgusting. There’s other ways you can spend money or time to help people who are in this position rather than watching a shit film. 

Let’s not glorify suicide

I’m not sorry for putting this on a monster blog, I’d rather more people see this than not.