Well sometimes it takes me awhile to see a film and this is one of those. I liked the film and found it a much more focused and unified effort compared to my previous Araki encounter (Doom Generation I saw centuries ago). I found nothing wrong with the alien encounters, and thought it was a positive coping mechanism that made perfect sense to me. At first I was a little suspicious of it, but it all came together in the end. Quite a damn good film, and Araki's vision works when its a little more subdued.