100/100

Certainly the most fascinating movie of the year. Sono turns pornography into high art with this surrealist, extremely meta insane ride of a movie that is as visually gorgeous as it is mindfucking. Monstruous performances, specially by Ami Tomite - a fucking beast in here -, genius perspective twists and role reversals throughout and so many possible readings that "rich" doesn't quite cover the thematic range of the film. Like with any Sono film, I have to sleep on it and rewatch it a few times before articulating an actual review. A masterpiece.

Anti-Porn (2016)

9/10

Ah, yes, Sion Sono, you crazy bastard, you've done it again. I like this new wave of films that are more than they meet the eye. This is part of the Roman Porno Reboot, but I can't imagine Nikkatsu being entirely happy with this, as it pokes fun at the concept of the Roman Porno itself. Like a modern day Daisies, this film has layers upon layers of realities, in which you just can't fully comprehend what's on top and what's behind it all, and even if the characters that we're seeing are real or just avatars of representation of ideas. Feminist and Political filmmaking at its best is all I can say, Wakamatsu and Adachi would be proud.

The pink film:
1. One sex scene every ten minutes
2. At least one hour long
3. Anything else goes

Sono takes the roman porno and turns it inside out, directly confronting and taking its audience, its creators, and the entirety of Japanese society to task for its hypocritical male-dictated standards of freedom and sexuality. La Chinoise is the easiest comparison -- a skin film in the making; the long takes, bold primary colors, and the anarchic use of music torn straight out of Godard's cinematic little red book.

“the lizard in this bottle can never escape. he is too big”
i’m going to ponder on this film’s meaning for a very long time. damn.

أول تجربة ليا من النوع دة من الأفلام، و شايف أنه قوي جداً ، تحويل البورنجرافي و الأمراض النفسية لفن و بيناقش قضية في نفس الوقت دة شئ مكنتش أتوقع أنه ممكن يبقى موجود.

There‘s actually a lot to unpack here. Sion Sono seems to not have been particularly interested in making a regular „Roman Porno“. Instead he uses the rules that make a film a Roman Porno to create an artfilm about japan‘s repressed view on female sexuality, with a narrative that intertwines reality with dreams, past with present. The endresult is, as the title already says, a true ANTIPORNO. With that I mean, it’s not against porn, it’s just never really meant to be titillating. Actually it’s rather fascinating and thought provoking and even though I’m neither japanese nor a woman, there are quite a few moments that really resonated with me.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Dear god. A clear line can be drawn from All That Jazz and Synecdoche, NY to this indulgent & gratuitous sexual deconstruction. One of the most gorgeous and visually magical films I’ve seen in the 21st century, let alone this decade. The set piece of the yellow room was unbelievable. The initial third wall break and thematic shift was unbelievable. I’ve definitely never seen a movie like this, and very few with this grand of ambition. What Kaufmann’s S,NY did for universal existential dread, Antiporno did for... something else?

It’s just about the same length as an episode of stranger things or game of thrones or something. Watch it!!!

A very surreal commentary on female sexual oppression.

That's it. That's all the analysis I got.

This was a weird-ass movie.

Ami Tomite’s performance in this is as good as anything. Sion Sono’s best imo

75

Finally, I was able to finish this film. This is such a difficult movie to churn out, even for a movie lover like me. What I can only say is Antiporno is the most meta flick I saw all time.