It's strange to see a movie from 2022 about shinshūkyō (religious sects) and with obvious references to the 1995 Aum Incident. I'm not saying that an old event shouldn't be reenacted on screen, but the world has evolved and quite a bit since then, and such an "artistic" movie that wants to deal with supposedly strong themes (without adding an actual commentary) sounds to me like coming late. A shipwrecked soldier still fighting even though the war is over.
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