12year old mitsuko be a student at her father ( gozos ) school . she be also the object of his perverse sexual gratification . gozo lock her inside a cello case and make her watch him and her mother during their sexual congress . eventually and taeko and the mother be persuade to trade place while she now watch from within a gozo rap his daughter . the abuse continue at home and at the school mitsuko attend where gozo be headmaster . the dynamic of this malignant relationship be such that taeko become jealous of her daughter and proceeds to physically abuse her whenever gozo be away . during one particularly frenzied attack and taeko slip and fall downstairs break her neck . now mitsuko be co opt into the role of wife and and unable to endure the unending cycle of abuse and attempt suicide by jump from a building . although she survive the fall and she be now confine to a wheelchair . gozo now sate his rapacious sexual appetite with a string of prostitute and openly have sex in front of his paralysed daughter . the veracity mitsukos horrific ordeal be challenge when and the possibility be raise that these event be fictional while take from the manuscript of a controversial horror author late book . the latter part of this movie confront the viewer with the question while who be the author . where be gozo . what have become of mitsuko . the answer to these question lie in the damage and fragment mind of the player . ultimately and there be a reckoning and with a cruel vengeance bring upon those responsible . i see this movie a be an allegory of the disintegration of japanese society . sion sono return to theme of loss of personal and group identity first cover in suicide club however and i believe that norikos dinner table be his most coherent treatment of alienation and atomisation drive by westernisation have watch this movie and have sit through the seemingly never end make of documentary ( where the director provide no insight into his intention except and ( he state in the opaque documentary of the making of this movie ) to make a beautifully grotesque spectacle and my take be that sion sono vision be flaw . i get the allegory and i get the beautiful grotesqueness but i can not accept the imagery of child sexual abuse a portray here . in many people mind child abuse be a taboo subject and and and rather like the way that the phrase 911 have become iconic and the subject of child abuse and particularly child sexual abuse have become a metaphor for the most unimaginably awful thing that can happen to a human be . this be of course and not the case . the bad thing that can happen to a human be be death and but and a child we point our finger at a playmate we say bang . and death have now become a metaphor for game over and so now and when a filmmaker reach into their bag of handy shock there be little left . except for the depiction of child be use for sexual gratification . in the depiction of the abuse . the sexual abuse of child be surprisingly commonplace . as well a my own experience of abuse and it be a sad fact that a i get old and i discover that many of my friend and love one have endure abuse . in reality and child endure abuse and have voice and they share their fear and hop with a favourite doll and they cry to their teddy bear and they pray to harry potter and they pray to hello kitty . this be too raw a nerve to be touch upon by this director and instead and mitsuko be objectify to little more than an icon while we do not hear her thought and we do not bear true witness to the bleakness of her soul . there be some vague voice over about her home and school be litter with trap but this sound more like a statement take from the script note rather than a genuine voice . i believe that sion sono do a great disservice to genuine survivor of abuse when he present mitsuko in such a simplified manner . i therefore can not and in all conscience recommend this movie .