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A man wakes up in a white empty room, with nothing apart from strange "buttons". He needs to push the correct buttons in order to get what he wants.
Symbol
2009 ‘しんぼる’ Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto
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Shinboru
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Who would have guessed that a wall full of Angel dicks is the ultimate instrument of omnipotent power.
Pure WTF cinema that can only have come from Japan. I seriously think that where MK Ultra left off, Japanese film school began.
Symbol is simultaneously stupid, funny and clever. And I always appreciate a great fart joke.
I liked it.
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A white room full of dick shaped buttons. U click & shit happens.
I have seen many claustrophobic horror but claustrophobic comedy? Wow this shit is creative.
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A man wakes up in a room. There are tiny cherub dicks on the wall. If he touches the dick, an object appears. Will the man be able to escape the room?
I had the greatest theatrical experience watching this film, and... Hot damn... I was laughing uncontrollably just like I did in a packed audience so many years ago.
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Man's struggles in this life are both physical and spiritual[1], as this dual show of (Mexican) minimalism and (Japanese) impressionism (and a culminating final act of an audiovisual discotheque of humanity's modern era) shows. Matsumoto is incredibly versatile in capturing differing cultures and making them dissonant and accurate at the same time, and through the "physical" core location of the film, he plays with the following hypothesis: "Man's existence is not an accident; it is triggered by something divine. However, what would happen if man's existence was left to man himself?"
That happens to be our reality.
At the end, this becomes an axiomatic statement of the little proper control man has over his own existence. Deprive him of his…
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2001: a space odyssey, but baby angel penises guide our evolution instead of monoliths.
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Even if not all of it works, what does is some life-affirming, get-out-of-your-comfort-zone, jog-those-synapses shit. You kinda wish it was all a big point & click escape room because those are the best parts, and once it moves beyond that it's just not AS strong... but holy HECK that soy sauce gag made me HOWL like I haven't done in a while. It's good to know there's someone up there, making it all happen by randomly pressing some penises.
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It smells so bad!
Tells the universal truth that if you push on a penis, weird things happen. Often reductive to call movies "random" especially in terms of its humor, but I think there are only a select few films I've seen that feel quite as random as Symbol does. This is a three star gem, where even if it doesn't quite come together as fully for me as I may wish, there are so many wonderful little moments here where I enjoyed my time with it. Hitoshi Matsumoto certainly seems like quite the mind. Co-written, starring, and directed by him, it's close to being a one man show. At first, the things that take place outside of the core…
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SYMBOL WILL FUCK YOU UP, between the two extremely juxtaposed story lines, the mexican wrestler, and the japanese man stuck in a white room with baby fucking angel dicks, yes baby angel dicks, you will begin to question the role that each scene and action represents. Symbol demands that you question every object which pops unopposed into the white room with each tug of a small angel's reproductive organ. There is a lawn chair, a bonsai tree, and chopsticks. The mexican storyline, which takes place in the present leads the viewer inexplicably on a path for most of the film before finally intertwining back with the japanese man's story. The denouement is odd, extremely odd, but however frustrating Symbol is, it's even more entertaining.
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Fuck the soy sauce.
Ok what the fuck. This is a whole new level of insanity.
But fuck yeah I like that .. I'm confused, but I like that !
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Everyone should watch this movie at least once in their lives. It is truly something special.
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And now for something completely weird.
A man is stuck in a white room filled with baby angel dicks...so he has to find a way to escape...Seriously, this is more interesting than any of the Saw sequels or even Cube.
Oh it gets more weirder towards the end.
If you want something weird, wtf, entertaining, funny and ridiculous. Then this is the one for you. If you're one of those who can't stand reading subtitles, don't worry, it's a film with little yet simple dialogue.
Now if you will excuse me, I need to listen to Cream's White Room.
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