A brilliantly edited shopping-and-cooking sequence introduces us to Taeko (Megumi Kagurazaka), the deeply unhappy second wife of Shamoto (Mitsuru Fukikoshi) and the stepmother to his hateful daughter, Mitsuko (Hikari Kajiwara). A spineless doormat, Shamoto is flattered by the unexpected attentions of Murata (Denden), the voluble owner of a magnificent fish emporium. In short order, Murata has bedded Taeko and all but adopted Mitsuko; he has also made Shamoto an unwilling accomplice to his psychopathic killing sprees.
Directed by the Japanese provocateur Sion Sono, ?Cold Fish? gradually evolves from a small domestic drama into a symphony of mauled breasts, marital rape and mutilated corpses. Propelled by slaughterhouse levels of gore and wickedly absurdist humor, the film mitigates its brutality with committed acting and a script that smartly plumbs the relationship between the cramped Japanese home ? the lack of windows, the shrunken appliances ? and familial violence.
Space deprivation features as prominently as male dominance, the vast, aquariumlike atmosphere of Murata?s store contrasting painfully with Shamoto?s cramped little fish shop. Even his microwave is minuscule.
Punctuated with rough sex between dirty old men and compliant young women, ?Cold Fish? is about the making of a monster. Date-and-time-stamped scenes suggest the inexorability of Shamoto?s decline, from which the director maintains a cool distance. Mr. Sono knows that, in business as in romance, intervention between masochist and sadist is almost always futile.
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Article Source: http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/movies/cold-fish-gleeful-horror-from-sion-sono-review.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Source: http://www.koifishpond.org/movie-review-cold-fish-swimming-in-blood/
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