Suicide Club 4K 2001

I am a big fan of meaningful films, and perhaps especially Japanese films of this kind. In general, films that make you think.

When it comes to horror films or thrillers, I'm sure not everyone here will understand me, as it's simply silly to expect these genres to have complex plots. Nevertheless, I have very peculiar tastes. The film Suicide Club intrigued me at first, even before I saw it, because the idea of mysterious mass suicides that began to occur out of the blue in Japan seemed so juicy and interesting.

In reality, it turned out to be not so great. Instead of a truly captivating and scary plot, in the spirit of something like The Ring, I got what you might call a real slap in the face, as the film is neither one thing nor the other, just plain dull. Yes, my mind grasped some chain of interconnected events, some parallels, and there were some truly shocking scenes, but to be honest, I simply did not see any coherence, any idea, or any understandable conclusion.

Maybe I'm just spoiled as a viewer and don't understand something, but in my opinion, the film is clearly unfinished. There is no climax. There is a banal lack of ending, competent implementation, and conclusion. In addition, watching it left me with very unpleasant feelings and impressions. It was depressing and too wild to watch young girls fall off roofs, jump in front of trains, and go crazy for an hour and a half without any apparent reason. It's a kind of carnage that just makes you feel depressed and despondent.

I am a big fan of horror movies and have watched a lot of very violent films, but still, you have to distinguish between subgenres — is it just a simple “slasher” or is it a film with a deeper meaning, which carries a message, a charge, and wants to convey something to the viewer, to teach them something. Light is always more visible against black, and it's great when filmmakers are guided by this principle, but sometimes, apparently, the opposite is true: the darker, the better.

After watching it, I honestly wanted to jump off the roof myself. Why shoot something like this, who came up with the idea? Not a shred of optimism.