Fantasia continues

Fantasia is a funny festival. You don't know how people will react to different movies.

Last night, we saw a couple of Japanese pictures. The first, Woman Transformation, I thought was okay. Not great, but okay. But one member of our party reacted to Woman Transformation the way I'd reacted to A Bloody Aria the night before, i.e. he thought it was pure torture. The transformations include, by the way, one young woman whose neck grows like a very long snake, while another has her fingernails grow beyond Fu Manchu length. She cannot control their rapid growth. Eventually she goes to the railroad track hoping a train will run over her nails, but snake-neck woman, thinking fingernail-woman is trying to commit suicide, stretches her neck in front of the train to push the other woman back from the track, and dies. Reading this now it sounds very bizarre, but really it's just Japanese. Oh well.

The second movie was The Rug Cop, which I had been really looking forward to seeing. It was about a stoic detective who uses his wig as a crime-stopping weapon. It was a funny little movie that made me smile. But the rest of the audience was reacting like they'd never seen anything so hilarious in all their lives. I'm not sure why people reacted so much. It was cute, but nothing in it made me want to shriek with laughter. Again, oh well.