When I'm writing this, I still feel a bit confused about the flick. Checking out the IMDb message board was of very little help, as it seems most of us feel equally confused when the credit rolls.
The flick features another appearance of Ryo Ishibashi (who played Aoyama in Takashi Miike's international breakthrough, Ôdishon), who is a great actor indeed. Even though his role in Jisatsu Saakuru is a bit laid back compared to the one of his in Ôdishon, I can't help to take notice of him and there's just something about him and his charisma that I like.
Furthermore, the plot is the major source of the unavoidable confusion. The flick kicks in with a mass suicide committed by a group of young schoolgirls, who decides to jump and kiss the rail in front of the moving train. While the police investigates the matter, more suicides are being committed. One cannot recognize if the director, Sion Sono, is a mastermind or simply had a hard time making the plot coherent, since it is at times a bit difficult to draw the connections. The latter phenomenon about drawing connections in the story is something that one could perceive as something entirely up to the flicks viewer, as fairly little is revealed by the director.
Anyhow, it's well worth a shot and I'm looking forward to see more flicks by Sono.
The flick features another appearance of Ryo Ishibashi (who played Aoyama in Takashi Miike's international breakthrough, Ôdishon), who is a great actor indeed. Even though his role in Jisatsu Saakuru is a bit laid back compared to the one of his in Ôdishon, I can't help to take notice of him and there's just something about him and his charisma that I like.
Furthermore, the plot is the major source of the unavoidable confusion. The flick kicks in with a mass suicide committed by a group of young schoolgirls, who decides to jump and kiss the rail in front of the moving train. While the police investigates the matter, more suicides are being committed. One cannot recognize if the director, Sion Sono, is a mastermind or simply had a hard time making the plot coherent, since it is at times a bit difficult to draw the connections. The latter phenomenon about drawing connections in the story is something that one could perceive as something entirely up to the flicks viewer, as fairly little is revealed by the director.
Anyhow, it's well worth a shot and I'm looking forward to see more flicks by Sono.