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Siskoid
Animal World is a Chinese film based on a comic that has the kind of crazy synopsis you won't believe COULD be made into a movie. You have your young hero who bonded with an anime super-clown when he was a boy and who sometimes hallucinates bad guys as monsters and his own violent impulses as the clown alter ego. You have him forced into a secret high-stakes rock-paper-scissors competition so he can pay his mom's hospital bills. The thing is cut-throat and run by none other than Michael Douglas, who you'd think would have filmed a day and collected his paycheck, but no, he's a sustained menace and looks to be in the sequel (cuz, yeah, it ends on a cliffhanger, though I think you get a complete story too). It's bonkers, with competing premises, but if you go with it, it's a lot of fun. I only wish I had a better handle on stats/maths so I could get how clever the protagonist is in his ploys to win the tournament. They expend some effort explaining things with visual aids, but a lot of it goes over my head anyway. Thankfully, all the solutions aren't mathematical. 5 years 3 months ago