Footage release of stage play "Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle-: Rule the Stage -track.3-" held in October 2020 at Tokyo Dome City Hall. Special Feature / Bonus Track: Curtain Call, Special Talk Session & Documentary
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By CinemaSerf
If you’ve seen “Dragon’s Den” then you’ll be familiar with the concept of some nervous entrepreneurial types making a pitch for resources to a panel of investors. Well here it’s “Vera” (Asta Kamma August) and her boyfriend “André” (Herbert Nordrum) who have come up with a plan to help out women with certain, un-defined, medical problems. With the big day approaching, she goes off to see a hypnotherapist whom she has read can help wean her off tobacco. Afterwards, when they arrive at the hotel, she appears different. Indeed, her behaviour becomes more and more eccentric and their partnership starts to develop some cracks. Those are exacerbated when he, always eager to say the right thing, finds that she is regularly contradicting him, even tripping him up, in front of the group’s leader “Julian” (David Fukamachi Regnfors). Exasperated by her increasingly flaky behaviour, he resorts to some short-term drastic action but will that stave of disaster for their business proposal and/or their now completely confused relationship? It’s not always very clear just what is going on here, but August plays her part well as she descends into her own unique psychological state and Nordrum steals the end of the film as only a perplexed man can(ine). It isn’t really laugh out loud, but the scenarios do quite entertainingly poke some fun at what comes across as an intellectually obsequious version of the “Emperor’s New Clothes”. It’s quirky and it misses as frequently as it hits, but I did quite enjoy the underlying sentiment and Nordrum’s seemingly endless, befuddled, patience.
