PROFOUNDLY INSANE

LAST night myself and two friends caught up over hot vegetarian pizza [I challenge you to find a better choice] and a nice Japanese film about incest and raw fish.  Don't get me wrong; we didn't go searching for a film that would make us look like we were sick in the head, rather it found us.  On our quest to watch something more serious after a brilliant [and emotional] two hours of Pixar's 'UP', we decided to forgo the standard generic drivel on the movie channels and were sold when we got to the words 'sixties' and 'Japanese'.  The title was also quite interesting, The Profound Desire of the Gods'[1968] or Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo , boasting an impressive triad of words which could have led the plot down a number of alleyways.  Oh right. We forgot.The film was made in the sixties so it wouldn't be true to its era unless it  focused on the words 'profound', 'desire' and 'gods' with equal and undying measure..

The film wasn't actually in black and white.  So there you go.

The whole story is based around a 'primitive tropical island' (imbd) to which an engineer from Tokyo travels in order to drill a well to provide water for a sugar mill, the island's main source of income [not particularly exciting].  It turns out however that the family who helps him, the 'Futori', are a crazed set of horny incestuous beasts who nearly lead the island into oblivion with the act of brother and sister fun-times and the father trying to persuade the engineer to 'marry his retarted daughter' (imbd) [bit more exciting, though by this point we feel a bit weird for wanting to watch it].

The island doesn't have a lot of water.  The water it does have gets used like this. Probably a bit silly.

Add a few creepy smiling masks with blonde hair, coupled with the standard but incredibly out-of-place Ironside-esque music, the repetoire of which included an uncanny likeness to Oh When the Saints go Marching In [I am 1oo% not lying] and you have a winner.

In all seriousness, the cinematography was similar to that of  Nicolas Roeg's slightly later film Walkabout [1971], set in the Australian outback.  The seemingly random cuts to shots of nature in the foreground whilst the action continues in the background are not only impressively beautiful, but symbolic of the importance and divinity of the nature which surrounds the natives; a line from the film simplifying this thought being whilst a character states that 'all nature', even the grass, is a god.

There was also a lot of boob biting and people shoving raw fish into each others mouths.

Kissing and exchanging raw fish at the same time. Genius.

I think what I am trying to say is that if you fancy a break from Layer Cake [the other riveting option we had] and the like, you'd probably [sort of] enjoy it.

So there you go.  What started out as a lighthearted pizza binge ended in a pretty cultural evening.
It's OK though because we watched Spongebob Squarepants aswell.

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