This is a razor-sharp satire, maybe too sharp for its own good. Every surreal disruption falls into place with such precision that it starts to feel rehearsed, like the bourgeois rituals it mocks. it's all so on the nose that it loses some of its menace. Maybe that’s the joke. Or maybe The Exterminating Angel just did it with more bite.
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The Eel 1997
Kicks off with a murder so excessive it verges on slapstick - blood splattering like it’s trying to escape the frame. It’s jarring, almost ridiculous, until you realize this isn’t reality but a memory warped by guilt. Imamura then shifts into a quiet rhythm, following our protagonist’s uneasy attempt at reinvention.
But the film kinda meanders from there. It’s never quite as deep as it thinks it is. For all its themes of transformation and self-discovery, it…
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Cure 1997
This film's construction of dread is immaculate, layering a deeply unsettling atmosphere that feels unmatched—an entirely different breed of horror.
The violence in this film strikes like an epidemic that is a sign of the times. It manifests not as an aberration but an impulse etched into our very being, individually and collectively. The murders committed by hypnotized individuals blur the line between insanity and clarity—are they losing themselves, or finally facing the truth within? As Sakuma…
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