J'adore ca!

Visions of excess. Enough to fill a city. Who will clean up after the lofty Parisian dreamers? Who will...well that's not important. It is important to sing and dance and make music with our tongues. It is important to eat well. Not the imperial style rice though....

Love the opening sequence that plays like Bresson's L'Argent. Loved the scenes at the dumpster that are strangely warm, trash draping the walls like velvet curtains.

Disregarding the latent homosexuality in the substitution of his penis with the phallic object, both cameras in use, Sato's and his self-insert, are used to shoot a load. Photography, here, is an elegiac homage to death and eros.
The fate of high school girls and pigs are analogous, both as beasts of burden. :(

this actually dually reveals the way the feminine identity is erased by motherhood and Japanese disillusionment of Westernization as the Edo period came to an end. this is CAMP!!!

She compared me to the teacher in Jeunes filles en uniforme, and herself to the worshipful Manuela. The teacher had beautiful eyes, full of pity, but she was strong. Why does June want to think me strong and herself a ionate child beloved by the teacher?