Real

Azuma is a surgeon who is plagued by headaches, which are affecting his work. Despite the fact that his friend and colleague, Nagai, attacked Azuma and injured his wrist, he takes the man's advice and seeks help from an underground healer. This man gives Azuma a drug which causes him to begin having very vivid and disturbing visions. Are these hallucinations or is he beginning to see the world for what it really is? This piece is quite weak as it takes it some time to reach any sort of point. Also, a great deal of information is left out at the beginning of the piece and we never get a real sense for who Azuma and Nagai are. "Real"'s riff on John Carpenter's They Live is interesting, but it also leaves much to be desired.