Denis Lavant as Merde is so creepy and devilish that you can understand the havoc he wreaks. He speaks a made up language that only three people in the world understand. And this language is complete gibberish, but it is spoken in a very dramatic way. The movie is three times as long as it should be because we have to wait for the interpreter to translate Japanese to French to gibberish. The courtroom scene is pretty cool. We simultaneously follow three shots all within one frame in a split screen. So we see real time reactions. And we anticipate what the reaction will be because we get the translation before the audience does. The opening tracking shot is also very well done. Merde stumbles across several blocks of Tokyo, eating flowers, licking people and generally scaring the public. And the camera keeps up right in front of him.
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