There are a couple images from this that have reached me through their cultural virality. What didn’t reach me was just how burdened this is with all that plotting.

Hell yeah! I've recently watched a number of videos by or about Christine Sun Kim, all as build up to this. Imagine my delight when she herself appears on screen signing poetry!

There are so many venues for artistic expression in spaces, formats, etc that we overlook. Give me more of this. I'm reminded of this piece in Another Gaze that points in a similar direction.

I didn’t know going in that this was about enjo-kousai. Yeesh.

There's a lot to enjoy, but this was ultimately just a really bad time at the theater. Made worse by the behavior of the audience. To the man moaning during the first sexual assault in the video store: your moans straddle an uncomfortable line between pleasure and disgust, and nobody needs to hear that shit. The unpleasantness on screen doesn't productively color any of the relationships depicted on screen, unlike say Smooth Talk.