Mika Madoka: Yubi o nurasu onna

My eyeballs got dirty just watching this movie. There was a good movie about the famous dancer Gypsy Rose Lee some years ago (Gypsy 1962), but this is nothing like that. I would not call this a 'good movie' , and yet it is worth a watch for the curiouse. The main point of interest here is the cultural differences. The way that the baby is used in the movie almost makes it a horror movie. At first I thought that the baby was replaced with a doll when the actors started to move around violently. I thought that the switch was so smoothly done that I could not even catch it being done. But then I realised that they actually did not bother to swap the baby for a doll, they just started whipping the actual baby around like a rag doll and carried on. His head actually changed colour a few times and I was surprised that it did not pop off. Incredible. Not one of the characters in this movie had any redeeming qualities. The ending was absurd, but if it was all intended as a parody of humanities folly - which I do not give it credit for attempting - then you could see the entire thing as comedy. I simply found it ugly. But as a converstaion subject for film fans, it cerrtainly does the job.