Piercing

Piercing is a very unusual movie written by Ryu Murakami, writer of the excellent Japanese film Audition, the synopsis I'm about to give doesn't really cover what the film is like to watch as it sounds really straight forward, it's about a man who hires a prostitute with the intention of killing her but she turns the tables on him instead. I really like that concept and I like parts of the movie but the film as a whole is hollow, overly strange and unfulfilling. 

I enjoyed its quintessentially 1970's throwback aesthetic and soundtrack and it does keep you on your toes as you're not sure really where its going, there's a dose of psychedelic imagery in there that's so unusual and out of place almost but it doesn't really add anything to the plot, it's weird for the sake of being weird.

I enjoyed Mia Wasikoska's performance as the drug addicted, insane prostitute, but I've liked her in most of the films I've seen her in even if I didn't like the movie all that much. so that's nothing new, the other lead Nicolas Pesce is honestly far too bland to be a serial killer and he brings absolutely nothing to the table.

The film although short enough to keep your interest does very little with it, it's incoherent but stylish enough to keep watching.
I kept thinking that it was going to try to make sense of it all by the end by it never bothered to, I'm certain that this ambiguity was intentional but it didn't work for me. I didn't hate it , I didn't love it , I didn't feel anything really about it whatsoever, apart from when it finished I was left thinking "is that it?".