Heard lots of good things about this film for a long time,
finally gave it a shot and for the most part it didn’t disappoint. Dude loses
his wife and after 7 years finally decides to get back on the dating scene. He
works as a TV producer so I don’t know how he isn’t just slaying it in that
department, but whatever. He and his buddy hold a mock audition for a show that
doesn’t exist and he narrows it down to about 30 women. Of course, the last
girl who auditions blows this dude’s mind and he becomes obsessed with her. We
learn some troubling things about the girl little by little over the course of
the movie. His buddy/coworker is like “this chick is mental, I’d stay away.” He
ignores all the red flags, and eventually bad shit starts to happen.
The movie drags slightly, but I guess its important
backstory; probably could’ve been done a bit quicker but the Japanese love to
tease out drama and suspense, so whatever. After 90 minutes, we get to some
pretty horrific torture elements - this chick is bananas, and it’s honestly
kind of attractive. I digress. We get a good 15-20 mins of torture before the
movie just sort of ends. Lots of weird dream sequences and drug induced
strangeness the latter half of the movie. All in all, solid film and worth a
watch.
7/10
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