Each member of a dysfunctional family interacts differently with a mysterious visitor who seems to inspire solutions to their deep problems.
One of Takashi Miike's first films, filmed in 7 days with a free hand camera, which already bears his famous imprint in terms of the subject he approaches, namely the uncomfortable and repressible truths of human nature.
There are many activities that we could not easily associate with things that really happen in the world unravelling in front of our eyes, although we are all aware that psychology/pathology finds and defines new items after there was a real precedent. The explanation for these acts could be twofold: we first see them as an experiment to find an answer to the question that one of the characters asks - "what should we feel in this case ?!" - and then they could be an exaggeration of the inner effects on man - here symbolically represented by actions with a strong visual effect - caused by a network of factors related to growth and identification in a family, which can harm not only actively but passively or by carelessness.
The ending reinforces these ideas, but due to the clumsiness of the filming (no matter how intentional) and the disgusting elements that are quite difficult to watch, the film is not for everyone. Not even for the so-called comic elements (non-existent here ...).
Directed by: Takashi Miike
With: Ken'ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe
Rating: 6/10
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