This was an extraordinary film...sometimes in a good way, sometimes not. Much too long...nearly three hours...but so rich in ideas that it might have been better if it had been even longer and broken up into watch-able segments.
The themes here were identity, alienation, prostitution, teen suicide, loneliness, role-playing, family dynamics and probably a few more. This film acted as back, side and fore story to the director's previous film Suicide Club. There was gore but it was so stylized and cartoonish it didn't offend me.
This guy - Shion Sono - is someone to watch. He needs discipline and focus and he needs to tone down his actors but his compositions, ideas and perspective are startling, disturbing, perhaps profound.
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