a5c7b9f00b A girl&#39;s life cascades into chaoseveryone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she herself becomes less and less certain of who she is and what kind of a world she lives in. Let&#39;s start saying that I will not deny Mr Sono his desire to push boundaries and be original. Just 5 minutes into the movie and we have like 200 million women that have been cut in half but some weird wind. Women, yes, because well, you will notice quite soon that men are not ones to be seen around a lot in this movie.<br/><br/>But the problem is that he just seems to want to be original for the sake of it, and doing so, ends repeating himself quite a bit. Leaving out all his religious symbols and passion for underwear, that come up in all of his movies (or at least in all I have seen), he ends just being a marvelous director in terms of camera-work, scenery, original shots, etc etc, and horrible in the plot department. I enjoy looking at his movies, but from a distance, and like for 5 minutes, when I notice there is no plot to hold the visuals.<br/><br/>But where in Tokyo Tribe, for example, he had a more or less original plot and crazy idea (a story told by actors &quot;rapping&quot;; I&#39;m generous here by calling their singing rapping, but it&#39;s part of the movie…) here we just have random situations that are hold together by… well, nothing. We have poor Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) just running around from one place to the other while something (I think he is winking his eye at Sam Raimi here; or just plainly copying) at first, teachers later, and well, weird things further on (I&#39;ll let you see it if you are interested) try to kill her. Poor Reina Triendl is not very expressive in this movie, but well, she has not much to work on. I see Mr. Sono telling her: LOOK SCARED! SCARED! JUST LOOK SCARED AND RUN!<br/><br/>If this review makes no sense to you, the movie will make less. Sono,Miike Takashi before he went mainstream, tries to be original and ends like the drunkard that loses himself in his own story by leaving everyone else scratching their heads. Original, yes; makes no sense, you betcha. Sion Sono the rebel genius returns to what he does best and does so uniquely. It is no secret that while America has gone Taliban and does body shaming on the street, at schools, on aeroplanes and more japan has advanced and the human body, pleasure and attractiveness have become normalized. Japanese women lead the world in showing everyone what nature and beauty is about and here Sono takes advantage to show us to bodies, legs, hair and panties, but incorporates a tale of gruesome gory massacre. Wow, cool. Action of one way, action of the other way and Sono gives the world another reason to cheer him on.
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