Diner (5 Stars)

This is the 28th film in the Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival.

Before the film began, the festival host said that it's full of pictures that we should try to enjoy without analysing the film. I refused to accept his advice. When someone says things like that, it sounds like an excuse for a film that doesn't make sense. I like to analyse films. It's the way I am.

Kanako is a woman who feels unloved and unwanted. Her job is carrying a board to advertise in the streets. What's that career called? While I was a student I did it for a few hours to earn some money, but as a full time job it's disastrous. She wants to get away from it all by having a holiday in Mexico. The holiday costs 300,000 Yen ($2,770), more than she has saved, so she looks on the Internet for a job that pays that amount in a day. She finds a job offering 300,000 Yen for a driver. Doesn't she suspect there might be a catch? She has to be the getaway driver for a gang robbing from another gang. The job goes wrong. Her employers are all killed, but Kanako's life is spared if she goes to work at a diner.

It's an exclusive diner that only serves food to assassins. They're bad tempered assassins, who have shot the last eight waitresses.

The film dazzles with the bright colours. The action is over-the-top, and the meals being served are just as exaggerated. This is the sort of film I like. The plot isn't difficult to analyse. Everything is easy to understand, as long as you suspend disbelief.