Zara Hedderman

And the two of them are in this cell and they're very different people.

But through Tontua's character, like telling his cellmate about this film and going through it, they start to build this friendship there.

And then we learn of kind of different dynamics between the cellmates as the film progresses, especially with how the like the police or the prison officials are trying to kind of maybe manipulate certain situations, get information.

It's quite interesting.

This adaptation initially, it was written for stage origin.

You can really tell that like a lot of it just takes place in their cell.

And then they have these big kind of cartoons.

Yeah, and the actors are very good.

Like it did take about 10 minutes or so to kind of acclimatise to it.

And then all of the cuts to the fictional film, they're really cartoonish, almost kind of made me think of like Singing in the Rain, how they have that technicolour kind of flatness, though, at the same time of depicting the studio system.

Yeah, a big one from 1988, cast Shiro Utama's film based on his manga of the same title.

And it's just a really fascinating film to watch in 2026.

So that film kind of jumps into the future for the 80s at the time.

It's set in 2019 in Neo.

Yeah.

In Neo Tokyo.

And there's a bike gang.

And you can see like the influence of this, especially when I was watching, I kept thinking of how like the Duffer brothers were drawing from this with Stranger Things.

It's a really fascinating story of just like the projections of what they kind of imagined for the future and how.

Yeah.