NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Kevin Ching The opening scene proved this film is going to be easy to digest, it is telling you that this film is going to challenge you, provoke you and disgust you! If you are not prepared, please don't watch this film.The unique aspect of this film is that it doesn't have a specific protagonist, at least not in the traditional manner. This is likely to be one of the reason why some people find this film rather confusing. However, I think it worked well in terms of presenting the film in a wider aspect, showing us what suicide means in different situations, scenario, relationships, but what is more important, is what it means to you."What is your connection to you?"The real horror from this film comes from the inside, inside the audience's mind, which is what real horror is about. The film explores a lot of theme, but what created the horror was the depiction of humanity. It shows how we are so numb because of how society programmed us, do we even know ourselves? We are also drawn to this fake hope, when you discover that you know nothing about yourself, that is when the real despair and horror comes.This film is not perfect, but more importantly, the idea came across, it transferred the really strong sensations and this is what art is about.

siderite The film starts with 54 schoolgirls happily counting to 3 and jumping in front of a subway train. Skulls crushed by train wheels and blood spattered over the other people on the platform, the train having difficulty breaking due to human fat on the tracks, etc, in the background a carnival happy musical background. Yeah, it's that kind of film. However, the film has a lot of subtlety and metaphorical messages throughout. So, no, it's not a j-horror thing, but a very shocking Japanese film, with a moral at the end.Back to the story, there are a lot more people just happily killing themselves. The police are stumped and, up to that moment, it all seemed a lot like The Happening, without some heroic dude as the main character. The ending disappointed me, though. I understood the whole idea of the film, which I don't intend to spoil here, but frankly the feel at the end was a huge WTF. Also the main culprits looked ridiculous. All revolutionaries have a really funny look, but this was going over the top. Indeed, the entire movie was.Bottom line: Still better than The Happening, even if made with a fraction of its budget, it gives you the same kind of confusing feeling at the end. I always hold that a movie is not very good if at the end you have to google what the hell it meant. This is one of those movies I have been a bit too stupid to fully understand. So, maybe it's me, but maybe it's the movie.

trashgang Japan is in trouble. Bunches of youth are in a suicidal mood. They jump before trains and they even jump from buildings and that's exactly what we see here in this flick with a message.For a Japanese horror it is low on gore but it's full of sputtering blood. Just watch the opening sequence with the girls jumping before a passing train. The red stuff flies through the air against the train itself and the commuters standing on the platform. We even see people jumping from the roof at a school and it also has a bit of black comedy like when an ear is hanging on the wall from where one jumped to death. A strange flick that you will like or dislike if you don't get the message. Not a typical horror for the lovers of Japanese flicks. I did try not to spoil anything, go figure it out yourself if you really understand this flick.Gore 1/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Virginie Mikaelian A movie that starts with a sequence you'll probably never forget: 54 high-school girls holding hands that jump in front of a train while some happy sounding song plays in the background. As more and more suicides seem to follow those of the girls, a group of detectives who believe that the deaths are anything but random investigate in order to find a link connecting them together… Behind the gory exaggerated and surreal images of filmmaker Shion Sono is a very accurate critique of the kind of world we live in today. A world in which the dense variety of communication outlets have isolated men to a point where the only connections we maintain are the ones that link us to the internet and where we try to relate with mainstream public figures more than we try relating with each other