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.
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.