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After recently listening to Tina Horn and Empress Wu talk about almost exactly what this movie claims to be, I was shocked by its brilliance when a day later I had a chance to see it. If you don't know what Mukbang is, it's the act of watching people eat online. You can guess where this is going. I was more than blown away by what director Aimee Kuge pulled off here. Great effects and great acting across the board. It gave almost a Miskatonic vibe, much like Suitable Flesh, but based in realism. There aren't a lot of people that have the guts to tackle these kind of subjects and still make it brutally fun. Get into it.

This movie tries to fight you. No sucker punch cowardly nonsense either, if you get a chance to listen to writer/director Guerrilla Metropolitana he basically tells you that the movie is coming for you. It practically dares you to defend yourself, and if we're being honest it's not even worth trying.

Full disclosure I love the bizarre. The odd, the weird, the unsung. If it's hard for normal movie goers to even fathom, I'm all in. This movie also goes all in. Metropolitana replaces dialogue with gristly sound design and camera work but filtered through a brain that has no limits. It's not an easy watch, reminding me at times of such arthouse weirdos like All Jacked Up And Full Of Worms, Skinamarink, and Gabriel Bartalos's later work. I'm not gonna spoil anything but it's basically a story about how 3 people react to a traumatic loss. But told through veins that are screaming with whatever drugs Spider Jerusalem did mid-career.

This movie is gonna fight you. Don't even try to defend yourself. Put your hands down and watch, it's the only way to get through it, and you'll be a better person for it.