a5c7b9f00b A simple funeral turns a man&#39;s world topsy turvy. A salaryman wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before - attending a funeral, dating but annoying his girlfriend, getting drunk in a pub and getting to know a yakuza and his beautiful mistress, having a gun in his hand and… Two thirds of the movie are filled with grotesque humorous scenes, whereas at end the tone of the movie changes completely and you get a dead serious message delivered. But the good news are: this somehow works. This is brilliant movie and it got to me form the first scenes. I only wished that the two parts where stronger connected. Was there any indication in the first two thirds, that the movie has the subject: &quot;is self defense justified?&quot;. No. It was all about palm reading, laughing endlessly and drunk dancing/shooting. I watched the movie now four times, because I can&#39;t get enough of the bar scenes. The laughing sequence is the best since Laurel and Hardy&#39;s &quot;Fra Diavolo.&quot; A strange puzzle. Mixture of kafkaesque atmosphere, pieces of black humor, slices of Japanese mythology, pacifist thesis. Ambiguous thriller about fall of a waste world, about normal existence like masks collection, about innocence like result of inactivity. A surrealistic funeral and explosion of corpse. The life broken decent limits and every gesture is a trap. Madness, Oriental Erinyes,an quaint fortune teller, a fascinating woman and Yakuza. Stupid murder and beginning of nightmare.<br/><br/>A salary man in a hotel room.Monday morning. Reconstruction of last hours step by step. The sin like oil stain. Fascination, stupefaction, fear, negation of facts. Cobweb of memories. Slow suffocation.Palsy. The resignation.<br/><br/>Traces of Sydney Lumet&#39;s &quot;Dog Day Afternoon&quot;, Tarantino&#39;s &quot;Pulp Fiction&quot; and &quot;Kill Bill&quot;, Stone&#39;s &quot;Natural Born Killers&quot;,David Cronenberg&#39;s &quot;Spider&quot;, Ingmar Bergman&#39;s &quot; Tystnaden&quot;. But important is only the Japanese recipes.<br/><br/>In fact, subtle exploration of Dostoievskyan sin, exploration of unavoidable failure, impossibility of escape. New page of Old Greek moral lesson.
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