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Plot:
One day, 54 smiling, singing highschool girls inexplicably link hands and jump onto
the tracks of an oncoming bullet train. Their deaths seems to trigger a wave of
suicides all over Japan. A detect...( read more 
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MCT:November 11, 2008So Great So Funny So Fu*King Brilliant. This is the first film I saw by Sono and what a great start. The social commentary is perfect in every way. If you are patiant you will understand. Plus there are lots of great gore sceans.
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MCT:October 28, 2008This is one of the funniest albeit confounding movies I have seen in a long long time. This is a happy film with a happy ending. A connection is finally made between young and old, the pop group's work is done and the most suicidal of the teenagers, the one whose boyfriend surprises her by landing on her when he jumps off a building in a suicide attempt, but doesn't die until he's had time to discuss the irony of the event with her, (tell me that isn't pure comic genius).
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MCT:October 27, 2008WTF??? This movie is so funny, bizarre and crazy, even though the performances are terrible (only Ryo Ishibashi and the crazy dude who kills for joy make a decent work) but this aspect is pointless before a weird story with no sense at all, but strangely entertaining. Definitively worth to watch, you will either laugh to death or wonder all the time with a creepy smile in your face ¿What the hell is wrong with this twisted-mind fu***d Japanese people? That sensation of perplexity is unique, and only the Asian are able to provide it, so don't miss it!
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MCT:October 5, 2008OH GOD! OH GOD! THERE WAS SO MUCH BLOOD OH GOD!!! IT WAS EVERYWHERE! IT WOULDN'T STOP! OH GOD, I CAN'T STOP CRYING! AAGH.
...yeah but seriously? Um.. quite a film. Confusing as fuck and I got some of the "deep message" that was underlying this blood bath of a film. But overall... unless you can handle shitloads of blood and gore... and I mean SHITLOADS... don't watch this...
Hell, there were parts where even I had to turn away. And that means a hell of a lot. Believe me. -
MCT:September 11, 2008
According to the DVD jacket, Suicide Club is a "wicked social critique" and "a study of contemporary morality" that is "darkly comic". Maybe I missed something, but to me any social critique was far too unsubtle and too frequently forgotten to be effective, and the fact that nothing really makes sense hardly makes it a study of contemporary morality. As for being darkly comic? Try hideously all over the shop; the film simply can't decide what it is and therefore has very little identity. All that aside, I did 'enjoy' (endure) much of the film.
The infamous opening mass-suicide by subway train was successfully set-up but the actual execution was shoddy (think the car scene in Hostel, all blood but nothing tangible or believable). Much more successful is a later scene at a school, where pupils on a roof garden discussing the wave of suicides egg each other on to top the record. What starts out as a joke escalates to a group holding hands in a chain and counting to three, whereupon, they promise each other, they'll jump to their deaths from the roof. It's very cleverly edited and the aftermath, where some have jumped and some haven't, those remaining shaken to the core, left me reeling. There are other successful sequences and, occasionally, some biting humor, though nothing is ever quite as memorable as that scene. Unfortunately, the film almost completely derails one hour in, with a ridiculous and horribly prolonged red-herring kidnap scene involving a lip-synching transvestite, casual rape and the bludgeoning of concealed pets that offers nothing and seems to be shoe-horned in, in an effort to 1) stretch out the running time, and 2) give Japanese 'superstar' Rolly a dreadful cameo appearance.
Thankfully, and eventually, things get slightly back on track for the conclusion and explanation, which seems to suggest that a subliminal message has been behind the deaths, but still fails to explain the vast majority of what gone on before. Maybe some stuff got lost in translation, or else I was too pissed off to examine the metaphors (lots of talk about having a connection to yourself, and some weird stuff which seemed to involve some sort of makeshift arc) but I'm still lost as to what writer/director Sion Sono was trying to convey. Still, it looks good, has some occasionally very effective moments and is definitely one of a kind. Oh, and the lead girl (who gets to be the heroine, sort of) is kinda cute.
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