The Midnight Meat Train is a grim, disturbing trip through the underside of the city that really lingered in my memory. The relentless mood of the movie engulfs the audience in the bleak underworld of obsession and violence that collide in the order to form the sense of impending doom, which will haunt a viewer long after he or she watches the movie. With harsh cinematography and dim colors it vividly depicts darkness of city underground train system to the point every tunnel and abandoned platform seems to be a way to something frightening.
The center of the story is around the life of Leon who is a talented photographer and his inclination towards dark and raw photography leads him to the dangerous end. His fall into obsession is presented quite naturally, and the movie shows in detail how this obsession is crooked vision and extinguishes the borders of interest and danger. The outcast, a creepy, strangely ordinary-appearing butcher, brings out the themes of the primal fear and the lurking bad in the film, which gave another dimension of psychological horror in it which made me feel uneasing.
Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, the film is taut and which even when there is silence, underlying tensions are thick and when the violence erupts as it does, it is shocking and visceral. The plot is slow enough so the viewer experiences tension leading to the most shocking moments in the film with a frightening effect. The music and sound combine to create the perfect atmosphere of the oppressive screenplay and make the viewer a resident of the world of looming darkness. All in all, the film The Midnight Meat Train forces the audience to face their most primitive fears giving it a haunting feeling that the veneer of veneer of civility is actually very thin.
Chanakyamwayinduhaye pls