Comments on "Sickathon"
It's the morning after "Sickathon" and I am still feeling repulsed by the gross images which were presented to me last night. Most "memorable" would be the scene where the female lead tortured the male lead in the Japanese flick "Audition". Asami, a seemingly innocent 24 year old female, enjoyed herself piercing needles into her middle-aged admirer, Aoyama, followed by sawing off his left foot with a wire saw. The blood! The gore!
The most perverted thing about this scene is that Asami seemed that she was thoroughly enjoying herself, and that she was acting like the common stereotype of a cute Japanese girl. Never in my 21 years have I been so utterly cringing from head to toe. Moral of this story is to NEVER judge a book by its cover. She looks cute? Could be a mentally warped sadist!!
The other two films included in Sickathon were "Irreversible" and "Beneath my skin". The first film is well known enough by its own standards, being one of the rare works where the story is told from ending to beginning. Besides going against the usual way of story-telling, there is nothing much about the plot. It is basically simple. Woman gets brutally rape anally, gets hurt from abuse after the session, her man seeks revenge and ends up bashing the culprit down to the skull with a fire extinguisher. Simple. Nothing extremely sick about this one, except for the fact that the effects for the skull bashing was really good. Very realistic and bloody.
"Beneath my skin" is about a woman obsessed with her own skin after getting an accidental injury on her right calf. She started cutting herself and peeling off her skin, to the extent of ripping it off using her mouth, then preserved the skin. This is one reason with a very bad story line. Many events and the behavior of the female lead,Esther, were left unexplained. Why did she suddenly started to mutilate herself after the injury? Was it because she didn't know she was hurt until she saw the blood and thus, thought that she was weird by not being able to feel the pain? How is it that she can cut herself so extensively and not bleed to death? Why is it that she never got blood stains on her clothes even though she did not bandage her bleeding wounds? Nothing made sense in this film. It is a movie made purely with the intention to gross audiences out and did not actually have any story line to began with. Why anyone would sponsor a film like this is beyond my imagination. Maybe the sponsor was someone who loved to preserve his own skin too, no?
The most perverted thing about this scene is that Asami seemed that she was thoroughly enjoying herself, and that she was acting like the common stereotype of a cute Japanese girl. Never in my 21 years have I been so utterly cringing from head to toe. Moral of this story is to NEVER judge a book by its cover. She looks cute? Could be a mentally warped sadist!!
The other two films included in Sickathon were "Irreversible" and "Beneath my skin". The first film is well known enough by its own standards, being one of the rare works where the story is told from ending to beginning. Besides going against the usual way of story-telling, there is nothing much about the plot. It is basically simple. Woman gets brutally rape anally, gets hurt from abuse after the session, her man seeks revenge and ends up bashing the culprit down to the skull with a fire extinguisher. Simple. Nothing extremely sick about this one, except for the fact that the effects for the skull bashing was really good. Very realistic and bloody.
"Beneath my skin" is about a woman obsessed with her own skin after getting an accidental injury on her right calf. She started cutting herself and peeling off her skin, to the extent of ripping it off using her mouth, then preserved the skin. This is one reason with a very bad story line. Many events and the behavior of the female lead,Esther, were left unexplained. Why did she suddenly started to mutilate herself after the injury? Was it because she didn't know she was hurt until she saw the blood and thus, thought that she was weird by not being able to feel the pain? How is it that she can cut herself so extensively and not bleed to death? Why is it that she never got blood stains on her clothes even though she did not bandage her bleeding wounds? Nothing made sense in this film. It is a movie made purely with the intention to gross audiences out and did not actually have any story line to began with. Why anyone would sponsor a film like this is beyond my imagination. Maybe the sponsor was someone who loved to preserve his own skin too, no?
Shelly breathed again at 11:51 PM
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