Director: Shu Lea Cheang
Starring: Ayumu Tokitou, Zachery Nataf

- Reviewed by Tim

Well then… where to begin on this movie. Oh my… I’m spent already!

"Do you love me? Do you trust me?"

First off, it’s an “experimental” movie that delves into a cyber-sexual experience. Did I say delves? I meant it “bitch slaps” you with its overt sexual content. Not that I didn’t know that going into the movie, but an hour and 15 minutes of moist slurping sounds does tend to wear on you.

The premise of the movie, I think, was set in a video-game-like setting. The participants have a mark of three X’s that appear on the wrist, and from there they are to set off on a predetermined sexual encounter. They get a message such as, “Find the school girl and get off the train. Look for the spiral and follow it.” Once that mission is complete, the storyline (if you can call it that) transfers to another player. This is the only real storyline that one could get out of this, since there is no actual script.

The scenes in the movie are hyper-colored and shot in extreme camera angles. There are attempts for humorous and disturbing visuals. There is one scene where two people are going at it, but the camera is filming through an aquarium filled with large gold fish. The over-the-top part of this was that there were men eating sushi just on the other side of aquarium. And another scene involving another couple and five or six inflatable sex dolls.

All in all, I would say that this movie walked a tight line between experimental film making and pornography. Not for the faint of heart or those with low tolerance for smut. This was very clearly the case when small groups of people kept fleeing out of the theatre, never to return.

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