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Today I'll show you a horror-thriller film: "Homunculus"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
In the middle of the city, a homeless man who suffers from amnesia, called "Mr Blank,"
tries his best to survive his daily life
The only thing he has is a car,
and a card which contains the money left from his former job at a financial institution
So he can still afford to eat in a fancy restaurant despite being homeless
At night, a young intern doctor, nicknamed "Doctor," approaches him in his car
Doctor offers Mr Blank tons of money, in exchange for his participation in an experiment
Doctor explains that the human brain only uses ten percent of its capacity,
and he speculates that using its full capacity could lead to a lot of possibilities
So he plans to unleash the full capacity of the human brain by drilling a small hole in the skull
Mr Blank just coldly tells Doctor to leave, since he already has enough money to survive daily life
It seems like Doctor personally knows Mr Blank, as he calls Mr Blank in his real name
Doctor knows that Mr Blank is an emotionless person, who desperately tries to feel alive
The following day, Mr Blank suddenly gets towed away
He is completely annoyed, upon knowing the fact that Doctor is responsible for it
Doctor says that he can give Mr Blank reason to be alive in just seven days
Mr Blank then finally agrees to participate in the experiment,
because he has nothing to lose anyway
After that, they arrive at Doctor's creepy apartment, where Doctor will conduct the experiment
Before the experiment,
Doctor explains to Mr Blank that the procedure will reactivate Mr Blank's brain
As Mr Blank finally understands the procedure, Doctor removes a portion of his forehead skin
Shortly after, Doctor starts slowly drilling a hole in his skull
The following day, Mr Blank wakes up in his car,
where he appears to suffer in pain from the procedure
He then finds money slipped in his car, with a note from Doctor requesting a dinner meeting
So later at night, he comes to meet Doctor in a restaurant
He returns the money to Doctor, saying he does not need it, since he already has his own money
Doctor then proceeds to observe him by letting him play a card game
Before parting ways, Doctor gives him a phone where Mr Blank can contact him
Doctor also gives him a hat to hide his wound from the experiment
Shortly after, as Mr Blank walks alone in the street,
he discovers that he can see people differently when he only uses his left eye
The people in the streets suddenly shift to weird forms and shapes,
as he looks at them using his left eye
He then accidentally bumps into a robot man, who turns out to be the boss of the yakuza gang
In anger, the yakuza boss attempts to cut his pinkie finger
But it appears to Mr Blank that the yakuza boss is cutting his own finger,
so Mr Blank informs him about it
The yakuza boss then starts shaking
In a few moments, the yakuza boss bursts into tears, making him leave the scene
After that, Mr Blank immediately informs Doctor about his strange experience
Doctor then speculates that the experiment activates Mr Blank's sixth sense
So he instructs Mr Blank to use it for him
But when Mr Blank takes a look at Doctor using his left eye, Doctor appears to be invisible
He then tells Doctor that he doesn't see anything
The next day, Mr Blank finally gets his car back
As he is staying inside his car, Doctor suddenly calls him
As they meet, Doctor explains Mr Blank's strange experience
Doctor speculates that these monsters are called "homunculus,"
which he thinks is the manifestation of the people's innermost traumas
This means that the experiment activates Mr Blank's capacity,
to visualize the people's hidden traumas by seeing their homunculus
To test Mr Blank's ability, Doctor brings him towards a brothel,
where there are a lot of traumatized people
Among the women, Mr Blank finds a sand monster hidden within a pretty woman, nicknamed "Beauty,"
who wears a tag with the number 1 7 7 5
They then follow her to a café, to further gain information about her
Shortly after, Doctor comes to approach Beauty at her table
As Mr Blank takes a look at them, he notices that Doctor,
who appears invisible, slowly absorbs the sand from Beauty
At the same time, Mr Blank's left eye reveals that Doctor's homunculus takes the form of water,
as bubbles start appearing in Doctor's invisible body
In a few moments, Beauty leaves her table
On the other side, Doctor is left in a state of nervousness,
while red lumps mysteriously appear on his face
Doctor then abruptly leaves,
after he hands over Beauty's phone to Mr Blank, which he stole from her
It seems like Doctor is allergic to women; and Beauty, who calls him a virgin, is able to sense it
Later at night, Mr Blank snoops on Beauty's phone
He discovers that she lives with a very strict parent
At the same time, she has an alternate social media account,
that she uses for erotic and artistic expression
Suddenly, the yakuza comes to kidnap Mr Blank, and brings him to the yakuza boss
It appears that the yakuza boss wonders about why he gets emotional in their encounter
Mr Blank then explains his vision to the yakuza boss
When Mr Blank takes a look at the yakuza boss,
his left eye reveals that there is an innocent child,
hidden behind the robot homunculus of the yakuza boss
It turns out that the yakuza boss accidentally cut his best friend's pinkie finger
during their childhood
The yakuza boss fails to apologize to his best friend, so he carries the hidden guilt until now
The yakuza boss then deliberately hurts other people to hide the guilt
As the hidden guilt gets uncovered, the robot suddenly breaks, which reveals the crying child
In tears, the yakuza boss finally confronts his guilt, and apologizes for his mistakes
In the end, he finally decides to change his life
He quits the yakuza gang, and cuts his own pinkie finger
After that, Mr Blank comes to have dinner with the homeless people in the park
There he tries to explain his former job, which is to calculate the monetary value of a person
The dinner then turns into a scuffle,
as the homeless grandpa believes that the worth of a human person cannot be calculated
Suddenly, he receives a call from Beauty, asking for her phone
He then comes to meet Beauty to return the phone
When they meet, he uses his ability to see Beauty's sand monster
But it turns out that the sand grains are actually symbols
As he sees the symbols, he discovers that Beauty is highly traumatized by her strict parents
Apparently, Beauty taunts people into having a hormone game with her,
to rebel against her strict parents
As the sand monster keeps taunting him, he forcibly penetrates the sand monster,
while also penetrating Beauty in the real world
He then notices a drop of blood from the sand monster, which signifies Beauty's scar
After that, he sucks the blood out of Beauty's smelly legs
In response, Beauty stops him, and she sucks the blood out of his smelly mouth
As a result, The sand monster disappears, and Beauty finally returns to her normal state
It seems that Beauty's hidden trauma is healed
The following day, Mr Blank wakes up in shock,
upon realizing that he absorbed other people's traumas
He then rushes to the hospital to find Doctor
But the hospital staff tells him to wait
In the waiting line, he encounters a faceless woman, which scares the shit out of him
He feels like he has already met the woman before
Soon after, Doctor finally arrives to pick him up
Doctor explains to him that he has the ability to heal people's trauma by absorbing them
Doctor then tells him about a woman, who also absorbed other people's trauma
The woman, however, ends up committing suicide
Upon knowing this, Mr Blank angrily tells Doctor to remove the ability
Doctor agrees, but with the condition that Mr Blank would reveal Doctor's homunculus
But Mr Blank refuses to reveal it
Later at night, Mr Blank still thinks about the woman he sees from the hospital
He then rummages through his car, to find something that would remind him of her
As he sees a card with the name of "Nanako," his memory of her comes back to him
In his memory, it turns out that he had already met Nanako in a bar
After they met, they eventually lived together while loving each other
So the following day, he comes to trace Nanako in the hospital
But it turns out that Nanako also suffers from amnesia
He then brings her to their old apartment to make her remember everything
As it seems that she finally regains her memory, they spend their first, fantastic,
but fast hormone night in the apartment
The next day,
Mr Blank realizes that he is coming back to normal, as he loses his ability to see the homunculus
He then takes a look at Nanako's face
To his surprise, there is an operation wound in her forehead,
that reveals she is also subject to the same experiment
Mr Blank quickly drives towards Doctor's apartment to confront him
But upon his arrival, Doctor is not there
As he takes a look at Doctor's family picture, he receives a call from Doctor
In the call, Doctor vaguely tells him that the world he sees through his so-called sixth sense,
is just a convenient illusion he created, including his memory of Nanako
Doctor then says that the real Nanako would eventually remember the real world;
and at that moment, Mr Blank would learn that some memories are better left unremembered
Meanwhile, Doctor arrives in their old apartment,
and confronts the woman, who turns out to be a fake Nanako
He then calls her using her real name
On the other hand, Mr Blank desperately finds a way to know the truth
He then gets the drill to open up his sixth sense again
In a few moments, he courageously proceeds to drill his own skull
After that, he finally regains his ability to see the homunculus
He then returns to their apartment to confront the fake Nanako
As he takes a look at the fake Nanako, her face slowly shifts to the real Nanako's face
He then begs the fake Nanako to reveal her true identity
At this moment, the fake Nanako admits that she is responsible for the real Nanako's death
He then gains a vision of the fake Nanako, driving with her boyfriend
It turns out that the fake Nanako jumped out of their car, in the midst of an argument
As her boyfriend came to grab her, their car accidentally hit the real Nanako
Her face then showed horror, as she witnessed her boyfriend and Nanako's death caused by accident
At the same time, Mr Blank regains his memory, which reveals a bitter truth
It turns out that before the real Nanako's death, the real Nanako break-up with him
Apparently, the real Nanako has a miscarriage,
and Mr Blank never knows it, since he seems uncaring towards her
The real Nanako then ran outside in the midst of their argument
He tried to chase the real Nanako, but she still got accidentally hit by the car
It seems like the fake Nanako's hidden trauma about the accident,
creates a homunculus that makes her appear to Mr Blank as the real Nanako
In the end, the fake Nanako tearfully apologizes, and reveals her name to Mr Blank
After that, she collapses, and Mr Blank brings her to bed
As he comes out of the room, he encounters Doctor sitting in the chair
Doctor mocks him, because the love of his life is already dead
In return, he reveals the bitter trauma hidden behind Doctor, which is water
This is why Doctor appears to be invisible at first glance
But when Doctor gets nervous, bubbles come out, which reveals the homunculus in the form of water
Mr Blank then intently observes Doctor using his ability
At this point, he discovers that Doctor never gets his father's attention
Apparently, his father always has his attention on his beloved fish
He thinks his father loves his fish more than him
He even drew fish scales to his skin, so he could resemble his father's fish
In the end, he finally decided to break the fishbowl, which led to the fish's death
He desperately tries to get his father's attention,
which explains why he is so obsessed with his experiment
At that moment, he starts to weep like a baby, and begs Mr Blank to help him
Meanwhile, Mr Blank realizes that he and Doctor are similar
They both wanted to be seen, but they never attempted to take a look at the other people
The movie ends where Doctor drills a hole in his own skull
He laughs in madness, as he gains the ability to see the homunculus
On the other hand, Mr Blank finally has a reason to live,
as he decides to happily live with the fake Nanako instead
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