Sakawa Boys 2 (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #35 extract: Sakawa Boys 2 (2010?)



Sakawa Boys continues on from its first part in which our four main figures are introduced and so it moves away from a character-driven melodrama about struggling to find a job and support into a darker and more fantastical story about deception and desperation. 
Part two carries less weight than the first part as it moves at a slower pace and without the creepy atmosphere it needed to manifest. So, though the movement into dark magic and rituals is measured, I found myself disengaged from the plot and alienated further by the gratuitous integration of special effects that turn the idea of Sakawa into absurdity that bears no real metaphorical or allegorical sense.

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