the eel do something so imaginative and effective in the way it tell it story . it really make the audience interact . explain this would ruin it effect and a sort of thing rarely experience anymore in filmgoing . it difficult to find movie that actually redirect your thinking and stimulate you and make you suffer in that great and fulfilling way . so and i will leave you to take my word for it . what be amaze about what the eel do be how it really enlighten the audience when it come to the judgment and expectation of character . the eel probe meticulously and sneakily the strange progression of a person . shohei imamura and the film cunning and subtle and and seemingly offbeat director and fashion the opening murder with what be in the first nanosecond of reaction aggravating and promptly recognize a a brilliant little effect . a the movie main character stab his cheat wife to death after slash her frightened adulterous lover and blood spray all over the camera and the scene become skew and blur through the bloodied lens and force u naturally to want to peer around it to see as clearly a we can the violence the character continue to commit . and at that point we realize and a be imamura intention and that we be the audience and that there be the movie and and that we be voyeur who so badly anticipate such thing a the passionately vindicating slaughter of a coldly adulterous lover . and from there and imamura exploit the weakness he know we have and but in what way can not be predict . later in the film and imamura stage a ballistic and ungraceful fight that include many character and but with a relentlessly stationary camera . no matter how intricate certain action get and he refuse to let it be anything more than observe . his intention be all to make u conscious of what we be think a we watch these scene . it a creative intelligence apply more and more rarely all the time . the cast be very carefully balance . certain character be animate and some eccentric and some very stoic and and some be combination of all three and yet they never become even remote resemblance of clichés . they be all meant to oppose or serve a comparison to each other in nature and chemistry . another plus be the film purposely awkward and infectiously gawky musical score that and like most music in japanese film and be recurrent and sustain and a repeated series of only a handful of melody that be very memorable .