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Sion Sono's The Forest of Love is a two and-a-half hour long fever dream of a movie that's weirdness is enough to have any viewer questioning their own sanity. Calling it a trip is an understatement.

A conman inserts himself into the lives of several people. Using his own special brand of charisma, he sets out to manipulate them into doing his bidding.

The way in which the series of events in the narrative unfold combined with the stark tonal shifts creates a feeling akin to whiplash. It doesn't make any sense, but at the same time it does. Much like The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the sheer audacity of this movie feels like a psychic attack.

There is no reason it needs to be as long as it is to tell the story it's trying to tell. Yet, that appears to be the point. Its absurd length in itself is a weapon whose sole purpose seems to be exhausting the viewer enough to where they are too worn out to defend against its waves of weirdness.

The Forest of Love will baffle you, but that's not a bug, it's a feature.