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Strange Circus



Original title: 気球 クラブ, その後 , ( Kimya na sākasu)
Country: Japan
Year: 2005
Director: Shion are


Mitzuko is the daughter of Gozo and Sayuri. Sayuri and Gozo are not exactly the perfect parents that you could imagine. Mitzuko is molested by her father and beaten by her mother. Tragic scenes in sumptuous walls of a wealthy Japanese family. Everything fell in the disarming scene psychology of delusional world that are Shion discovers, violent and bangs on the screen with a relentless precision. A world where everything seems fake, grotesque caricature. A world where everything becomes a metaphor for herself and a child is seen with the eyes of woman, man and spirit broken. A world in which there is no space to play but to play a role. Like all the characters of the strange circus that is a corollary to the story.
But what in reality is fake, imaginary .. and what is real? Who are the real circus? The strange beings from the stage asking for a volunteer among the public as a sacrificial victim ... or rather the beings who inhabit a world seemingly "normal" obsessions and impulses that are hidden behind a door chiselled in a wheelchair, a manuscript worn, a carry case for cello, a white coat punk, a local daring, a bottiglia di sakè..?

Strange Circus è spietato. Come un abile chirurgo, scava nella mente della protagonista mettendone a nudo le paure, le debolezze e la disperazione. Il desiderio di vendetta, il bisogno di redenzione, le profonde contraddizioni derivate da un passato non del tutto limpido e sereno.
E' un coltello affilato, un pugno nello stomaco, un'abile intrusione nella privacy di una famiglia, ma anche di chi osserva dall'esterno.. conscio del fatto che un vero "esterno" forse non esiste.
Un po' come si dice anche nel film... di quale sia la realtà in fondo non si ha certezza: cosa succederebbe se.... ?
Le possibilità infinite regalano l'escamotage perfetto per un film che mix plane of reality and identity many times .. trying to confuse, but instead of making an effective psychological portrait of actors and not.

picture perfect, wonderful director and actors sometimes over the top but never granted or unsuitable. Worthy of note is the sequence beginning and end. A film that rivedrei, and I saw many times. To remember, for sure.

Rating: 9