Visitor Q (2001)
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Siren Visual Entertainment (Australia). All Regions, PAL. 4:3. Japanese DD 5.1, Japanese DTS 5.1, Japanese 2.0. English Subtitles. 84 minutes |
The Movie |
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Credits |
Director:Takashi
Miike
Starring:Kenichi Endo,
Shungiku Uchida, Shoko Nakahara, Kazushi Watanabe,
Fujiko, Jun Muto
Screenplay: Itaru Era
Music: Koji Endo
Tagline: Takashi Miike's
most insane film yet!
Country: Japan |
Shot before Ichi The Killer but released in the same year, Visitor
Q is a $70,000 made on digital wonder
that also didn't make it into the Melbourne International
Filmfest (rescued instead by MUFF) which may be
some sort of active indicator as to the standard
of film we're talking about here.
Besides the maximum terroraustralis rating I
apply below, Visitor Q is also
a 3D film, that is: demented, deranged and depraved.
Here's why: The opening subtitle poses the question:
"Have you ever done it with your Dad?" as a teenage
girl strips for a handheld camera. The camera
operator fingers her before she takes his picture,
gives him a run down of prices for sexual activities,
and gets him to strip and expose his genitals
for digital masking. He goes down on her as she
snaps some more stills. Don't tell anyone he says.
He ejaculates prematurely to which she proceeds
to taunt him and promptly double her expenses.
When he doesn't have the complete payment he says
he'll pass it on to her Mum when he's got it.
Next subtitle question, just before the main titles
is, "Have you ever been hit on the head?" This
question is answered immediately when the male
from the last scene is shown sitting listlessly
at a public transport shelter as another guy,
the titular visitor, can be seen in the background
examining a rock. Q opens a sliding window and
casually knocks out the first guy. Next question
is, "Have you ever hit your mum?" which takes
us inside a house to where a woman with bruised
hands is working on a complex jigsaw puzzle. A
teenage boy with a wooden rug beater storms in
and immediately applies it to the woman who pleads
for him not to hit her in the face. The boy leaves
after knocking her around the room and is lying
on his bed when voices from outside call for him
just as they launch a full scale skyrocket attack
on his room. Meanwhile, downstairs, Mum is cooking
up some smack to stick in her thigh. Dad arrives
home with Visitor Q who's going to stay a while.
After the mother serves them food the sounds of
her receiving further beatings from the kid reverberate
through the house. Q watches TV. A video shows
Dad having a microphone shoved up his arse. Mum
attends to her wounds and limps off to work. Dad
meets a girl from his work in a restaurant and
she tells him the microphone rape scene had gone
to air. Dad is keen to pitch his idea for a reality
TV show called Real Bullying but the woman remains
uninterested and walks out. Mum, it transpires,
works in a brothel, principally to support her
habit. A customer likes her limp. He inspects
all her scars. At home Q milks Mum. Her son watches
as milk spurts everywhere. When the son throws
his noodle bowl at her she retaliates with a knife.
The fireworks gang return and Dad films their
new attack, rapt that his house is being destroyed.
Q grabs the camera and films the son being ordered
to shit while he's tied up with barbed wire. The
daughter slaps Dad and runs away. Dad strangles
the female work colleague that he'd previously
met while he masturbates her. Q mans the camera.
The gal dies. Mum is in a garbage bag milking
herself in front of Q. Dad marks out the dead
girl for dissection. Dad is speaking to camera
when he discovers he gets horny while watching
his son get bullied. He decides to have it off
with the corpse. The corpse shits itself and Dad
gets his dick stuck in it. Mum comes to the rescue
by going down the shops to pick up some oil to
separate them. Dad and the corpse are in the bath.
Mum hits up Dad. Dad finally parts with the corpse
only to have his son attacked in the yard by the
firecracker gang. Dad attacks with a handsaw and
gets one kid in the head. Mum goes back to the
shop for some deodorizer. The dead bodies are
put in a trunk and Mum and Dad cut up the dead
girl together.
Out on the street the daughter bumps into Q.
She asks if he wants sex but he picks up a rock.
The daughter arrives home to find Dad sucking
on Mum's tit in the backyard while they're wrapped
in plastic. The daughter is very happy with this
scene and joins in. A psychedelic folk song with
a female voice fills the soundtrack (Bubble of
Water by Real Time). |
Video |
Shot on tape with minimal lighting Visitor
Q is often and literally as difficult to
look at as some of the acts it depicts. |
Audio |
Presented in Dolby stereo, 5.1 surround, and DTS, Visitor Q makes great use of strange
sounds. There's a constant eerie wail that enters
many scenes and remains as disturbing as much of
the imagery. The use of the psych-folk song is almost
comforting. |
Extra Features |
Trailer. |
The Verdict |
There's nothing supernatural about Visitor
Q but it's all natural and it's all super
especially if you like deeply twisted and perverted
films that travel to the beat of their own drum
machine. Visitor Q leaves much
of itself open to personal interpretation and other
than urge you to road test it at your own peril
don't do it in the presence of your own mother.
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