The cover of a DVD going on release this week has a by-line that might pique your curiosity - "Scenes of whipping, punching, slapping, choking, kicking and beating". Something for everyone, one might think.
Alas, no. R100 is not quite like that.
All the action is centered on a Japanese business man, whose wife is in a death coma, who pays for a one year subscription to "The Dungeon Club" - one rule of which there are no early cancellations. So, from time to time, he is leaped up at random by female dominatrices, who, in the main, kick the hell out of him, kung fu style. One crushes his sushi to an inedible mush - but she is an exception.
So unless you relish watching a Japanese guy being publicly humiliated to the limits of his tolerance, you are not likely to get many jollies from this extraordinary piece of art. And, for a mere spanko fan, it gets worse.
The SM scenes are filmed in colors so washed out that they are almost in black an white: to heighten the unreality of all that is going on.
And - according to some in depth reviewers - those scenes never really happen. They are there merely to depict the way in which stronger recreational drugs can cause havoc to one's life. A theory with some merit, for as the film goes on, the episodes get wilder and wilder in content - pretty much the same way a brain can get addled on too much of the good stuff. And a theory that explains why the plot persistently falls apart in ways that seem quite random, at first sight.
So - unless David Lynch's works were far too mellow for you, and the sight of a high kicking dominatrix hits one of your major buttons - you might want to give this one a miss. The makers did put on the warning label - "No one under 100 will be admitted": which accounts for the R100 rating.
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