The Machine Girl
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- cold
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.
Our read · The Machine Girl (2008) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal action · adventure · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Machine Girl
What watching it is actually like.
“You want hyperviolent Japanese splatter revenge with a machine-gun arm and zero shame.”
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The reading.
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