Marebito--The Need for Terror

A “freelance cameraman” (glorified voyeur?), sees “someone” in the window of an apartment through the lens of his camera. He says through his lens he “salvaged her soul.” Right. Takuyoshi Masuoka is the name of this cameraman. His pursuit of the ultimate terror could be his undoing. In his home, he has all these television monitors and recording equipment. He captured a nasty suicide up close. Masuoka contemplates if the suicide victim stabbed himself in the eye too cease what terrified him. The woman in the apartment also compels him.

I want to see what he saw then.

I’m not so sure about that. Be careful what you wish for, right? He seems, though, to truly yearn for the kind of terror portrayed in the eyes of the suicide victim. Leaning over a guard rail, Masuoka is looking to feel that terror and it was nonexistent. Yeah, this joker is a bit warped in the brain. Through the girl in the window of the mysterious apartment, Masuoka may get what he craves for, and then some.

Do I have the courage to open the door to the passageway of terror?

He understands that going down this road, the only way out from this terror he so desires is suicide. He threw that bottle of Prozac in the trash; he wants to be focused for that dark road ahead. This guy’s nuts.