Ōshima Nagisa’s breakthrough sophomore feature is a vicious social commentary and a desperate, warped romance.

Ōshima’s restlessness is smeared across each scene, his camera capturing a generation that drifts through emotional ruin.

...the film is effective, as it makes it clear that we are dealing with a director with a playful style who doesn't play with forms on a whim, but with a clear purpose: to denounce the hypocrisy of the society he portrays. [Full review in Spanish]

With his narrative, Oshima (prophetically) confronts us that the fact that what destroys idealism is nothing but a forced societal call to enjoy and to consume.