Crazy how the third act of this 20 year old’s uncompromising vision feels exactly like studio notes and interference
Basically Whiplash with Japanese first graders
A film with something to say can be rendered meaningless if it's preoccupied by literally anything other than the point its trying to make. I don't doubt that this kind of abuse happens in real life, and I understand what the film is trying to say about class, trauma, and "scientific" discovery but, due to the exploitative and gratuitous violence, there's absolutely no reason to sit through this in order to glean any sort of message.
You know why it…