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Film/Video
TOKYO UNDERGROUND: TAKASHI MIIKE'S MAD BAD WORLD
VISITOR Q (BIZITA Q)
DIRECTED BY TAKASHI MIIKE
FRIDAY,
JUNE 6, 2003,
8 PM
$7 ($5 WALKER MEMBERS)
AUDITORIUM
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This explicit, bizarre, and horrific satire of family values is told in
an excessive surrealist style beyond the outlandish aesthetics of John Waters,
François Ozon, and Luis Buñuel. The film's family is an absolute
wreck, plagued with problems ranging from battering and bullying to prostitution,
incest, and necrophilia. One day, Q moves in with them and shapes them back
into a functioning unit. An extreme piece of exaggeration, Visitor Q
might look like a parade of depravity and an assault on a sanctified institution,
but it has a surprisingly conservative message at heart. After all the perversities
and the shocks of abnormality, each family member resumes his or her natural
role and learns to love each other again. In his notes for the film at the
2001 Vancouver Film Festival, Tony Rayns wrote, "Of the five or six movies
[Takashi] made last year, Visitor Q is the most offensive." 2001,
Japan, color, video, in Japanese with English subtitles, 84 minutes.
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