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2015 surrealistic movie

Rating: 11/20

Plot: A girl has a bad day.

The terrible special effects probably shouldn't bother me as much as they did, but they really bothered me. Of course, more realistic gore would have likely upset me even more, so maybe I shouldn't complain.

For a movie just over 80 minutes, this probably shouldn't seem as redundant as it does. The protagonist transforms into variations of herself and the violent tragedies she's at the center of shift just as much, but the tone never changes and half of the running time consists of shots of the main character running. And Sion Sono's apparently got himself access to a drone because there are far too many of these sweeping overhead shots.

One character repeats a line about how the world is surreal and something you just have to deal with, apparently one of the movie's themes. Drawing attention to how surreal everything felt juvenile to me, like a middle school student just added the word to her vernacular and wanted to show it off.

There's a feminist angle here, but it wasn't exactly clear what was going on there. Every single character--both the main ones and the peripheral ones--are female for about 3/4 of the movie. Once the males come along, themes start to emerge a little bit, but by that point, I was too tired to really care about what was going on, and the punchline offering an explanation to these shenanigans wasn't satisfying.

This is my least favorite Sion Sono movie.