A colorful room (photographic chromatism is one of the most pleasant thing of this movie) is a kind of metaphysical and metacinematographic space. At first we understand it as a place of violence and delirium, with mad actions of a strange girl artist that enjoys violence and offences against her secretary. But at a certain moment we discover that the room is instead a cinematographic set of a film for adults.
At this point, roles are exchanged: the violent becomes the attacked and it starts to be shown the world beyond the film: the difficult relation of the main actress with the troupe and the difficult past with her family. Moreover, through this scenes we understand the reason that brought the protagonist to choose to become an actress, that are linked to the discovering of body, strange relation with parents and psychotic need of a relationship.
Consequently, the initial room shows all its stratification: place of violence and degraded relations; place of a set (in which rapports of violence are inverted); place of analysis of the past. Trait d'union is the condition of women in Japan, that explain the real deep question of the movie: affectivity is a kind of social nevrotic acting, and this generate desire because is hidden, frustration because it's negated, ipocricy because is adored and at the same time punished.
A deep metacinematographic exploration of body attraction and its role in society by Sion Sono, with precious shots that make the film a little masterpiece.
At this point, roles are exchanged: the violent becomes the attacked and it starts to be shown the world beyond the film: the difficult relation of the main actress with the troupe and the difficult past with her family. Moreover, through this scenes we understand the reason that brought the protagonist to choose to become an actress, that are linked to the discovering of body, strange relation with parents and psychotic need of a relationship.
Consequently, the initial room shows all its stratification: place of violence and degraded relations; place of a set (in which rapports of violence are inverted); place of analysis of the past. Trait d'union is the condition of women in Japan, that explain the real deep question of the movie: affectivity is a kind of social nevrotic acting, and this generate desire because is hidden, frustration because it's negated, ipocricy because is adored and at the same time punished.
A deep metacinematographic exploration of body attraction and its role in society by Sion Sono, with precious shots that make the film a little masterpiece.