clair.thiel - 2016-02-23 11:44:27

Before you begin to obnoxiously type away over how shit this is like the nefarious weebs that you are, remember that this is not anime. This shouldn't even be on the website. This is Japanese experimental film, this is an art film that happens to have elements of animation and should be criticized as thus. This film is designed to be open to developing your own conclusions, this film isn't even in the same league as whatever it is that you're more likely to consume and enjoy. So shut up, let the big boys talk and go back to watching your Highschool DxD or whatever, and please refrain from posting links to it somewhere on the internet when your only discernible criticism is over how "it's so weird lol XD." In the mean time, I will continue to be a pretentious arthouse dick and everyone's more or less as happy as they were before.

That being said, let's get down to what makes this film sing to me. Nami is Kei Oyama's early arthouse atrocity that managed to make it to the limelight of being considered to be among the strangest 3 minutes of film to ever make it out of Japan. Though anyone who's seen the Guinea Pig movies as much as I have can quickly detest that misconception. Nami seems to hold themes of sexual exploration under its own microscope and paints a rather bleak image of the relationship between sexual gratification and sexual procreation. As some of us learned folk might know, the development of the genetic mutations that eventually led to sexual pleasure during reproduction comes from prehistoric fish. An interesting anecdote, the source of our pleasure entering the source of her pleasure. Taking into account that the fish also represent the girl's parents, I would say that it's safe to conclude that the film is a criticism of Japanese parents'/society's invasive nature of attempting to control the sexuality of its young women. Considering the film is a little under 3 minutes, this is the only conclusion that I can draw given the material.

Don't take it too seriously and you can have yourself a neat little experience, regardless of what you get out of it. If anything I would say the film serves as an excellent conversation piece and icebreaker. You also have to remember that it's one of Oyama's early works and the fact that it's still being mentioned today is pretty noteworthy. Nami, it's a wild ride.

lmayert - 2015-08-23 13:43:42

It's a true work of art. I call it a true Masterpiece.

jevon34 - 2015-07-26 11:12:44

I wish that this would give me dementia, as some things cannot be unseen.