Visitor Q (2001)

Directed by none other than Takashi Miike

What in god's name did I just watch? Did I watch a movie? What was that? Was that shot on a camcorder? Should I be humored or horrified? What is going on with Japanese television? (Yeah this aired of Japanese television). These are all question you'll ask yourself after watching this. Whatever the hell this was? A masterpiece? A fiasco? It's anyone's guess.

A father loses his job at a TV studio, and decides he's going to record his family as a reality series to get back on the air. Waiting at a train station he is hit on the head with a rock. Someone literally hits him in the head with a rock. So naturally he brings his assailant, Q, his name is Q, home with him to meet the family. Q in turn starts solving their issues, their dysfunction in the most bizarre ways imaginable.

This flick is a satirical look at reality television & family dysfunction.... Miike style. Which means you'll be subjected to:

- Incest - (Father/Daughter Incest that is)
- Teenage Prostitution - (Daughter is... well she's a prostitute which explains the line above)
- Mother Abuse - (Reverse Child Abuse, Son beats his mother with a remarkable collection of canes)
- Addiction - ("Mommy loves her heroine")
- Urination - (In my day, bullies just used to punch kids)
- Lactation - (I'm talking from across the room)
- Rape - (Wouldn't be an extreme Miike movie without it)
- Necrophilia - (Some guys will do anything... literally)
- Whatever word describes getting shit on by a corpse.... (disgusting)
- Mutilation - Never will you see someone so happy as in this mutilation scene. I mean everybody involved is smiling from ear to ear.

Now maybe it's because I'm not Japanese, but the only coherent messages I could pull from this were:

- Breast-milk contains trace elements of Prozac
- The family that kills together stays together
- Sometimes you need an already fucked up outside source to fix an already fucked up family
OR
- Some people need to be hit on the head with a 10 lb. rock before they wake up and smell the dysfunction.


MORAL OF THE STORY:
Family Dysfunction makes the best Reality Television


8 out of 10