And there is an erotic piece at the end called What’s Going On? Katsuragi says: “An actress believes she’s living in a movie.” To which Nami says: “Yes, the actress thinks reality is a series of movies.” She continues and says the movie is about an actor couple who break up and she plays a character called Kyoko.” Within is an action movie called Blackbird. Nami explains it is a movie within a movie. Katsuragi asks Nami about her marriage to an actor who is 15 years older and the movie she is about to shoot.
From the conversation, it is clear that this isn’t the first time the two are meeting. Movie star Nami is ushered into a studio booth to do an interview with editor Katsuragi.
As she convulses, she recalls a scene where she has electrodes stuck to her head. Someone puts a clamp on her nipple and she gets an electric shock. Next the woman is seen tied up in a chair, her dress pulled down, revealing her breasts. Unexpectedly, the young girl turns on the woman. The movie opens on a deceptive - one might even say, jarring - note: A woman with a gun enters a warehouse to rescue a young girl who is chained up (it’s a case of human trafficking). Director Ishii really wants the viewer to pay attention and be involved.Think of this as a more extreme version of The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Sure the nudity and sex in Takashi Ishii’s The Brutal Hopelessness Of Love (2007) is great - both Mai Kitajima (Nami) and Mikage (Junko) have voluptuous bodies - but this is really not a movie for those out for some eye candy. Stephen Tan reviews Takashi Ishii’s The Brutal Hopelessness Of Love (2007).
When an actress realises that her husband is cheating on her, she becomes so distraught she cannot tell apart what’s real and what’s in a movie, and that includes kinky sex and murder.
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