Snakes and Earrings

Snakes and Earrings

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Release Date

9/20/2008

Runtime

123 mins

Overview

While alone in a nightclub, straight-laced Lui meets sensitive but troubled punk kid Ama. Mesmerized by his split tongue, she becomes obsessed with body modification and soon wants the same treatment. After Ama's heavily-tattooed friend Shiba pierces her tongue, Lui finds herself inexorably drawn to both men – and to her growing list of desires, she now adds a tattoo.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

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Revenue

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A sensual descent into desire and self-destruction as a woman becomes entranced by a man's transgressive body and the pain that comes with it. The film tracks an obsession that blurs eroticism and damage in ways that feel genuinely destabilizing.

Mood

BittersweetUnsettlingWistful

Themes

LoveObsessionIdentityComing apart

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violenceSexual content

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