What if hypnosis was as powerful as movies and TV act like it is? What what would that do to maladjusted dropouts? Well in 1997 director Kiyoshi Kurosawa answered that question with the classic thriller movie Cure.
Join Myles and Super as they have a freewheeling chat about the movie and its themes of severe stress, cult influences in Japan, and mesmerism.
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Cure is about the horror of Americanization. The “goofy cult” is Christianity imposed by post-war “freedom” of religion (which has ultimately proved to just be Zionism), the X viciously carved into the victims also happening to be the Greek letter used to abbreviate Christ. Mamiya, the “weird psychopath,” was just fully Americanized, as much a victim of disintegrated identity as the other Japanese with whom he comes into contact.