Recently, a friend and I visited Hollywood Video, the panacea of good, bad, more bad, and TV on DVD. So long as I rented what I wanted, he got what he wanted, which was this absolutely horrible, horrible movie.
Why is this movie horrible? It's horrible because it has no point, no moral, no good characters, no good acting, no plot, no subtext, no context, and, most importantly, no logic. The protagonist is a vicious, callous, brutal man who beats up women and men alike. His comrades are toothless goons who get what they deserve after they rape, kill, and get drunk, which they do often.
What's in this movie? What happens? The movie has no internal logic. A woman is hoodwinked into selling her body after she steals some money from a wealthy man. Her boyfriend never calls the cops even though he knows precisely where she is and her parents and friends don't seem to exist. Consequently, she is trapped in a world of drunken sex and voyeurism masquerading as "art". The protagonist watches her through one-way glass as she cries herself to sleep or gets assaulted by customers. We see him grimace, glare, and occasionally react to what he sees. He's angry and violent. The movie wants you ask why. It wants you to feel for him in some way. The truth, however, is that he's scum and every time he gets knifed you pray for him to die and for the movie to come an end.
What else happens? There's rape. There's more rape. There's blood. There's piano music. There's attempted murder. There's more piano music. Oh, and there's lots of art-house pretension, lots of shots through the one-way glass trying to connect both the brutal man and his sex slave on some fundamental, emotional level.
Avoid this lousy movie. It's a pointless exercise at art-film without the necessary characters, acting, dialogue, or plot that a good film requires. I'd recommend a root canal instead.
Why is this movie horrible? It's horrible because it has no point, no moral, no good characters, no good acting, no plot, no subtext, no context, and, most importantly, no logic. The protagonist is a vicious, callous, brutal man who beats up women and men alike. His comrades are toothless goons who get what they deserve after they rape, kill, and get drunk, which they do often.
What's in this movie? What happens? The movie has no internal logic. A woman is hoodwinked into selling her body after she steals some money from a wealthy man. Her boyfriend never calls the cops even though he knows precisely where she is and her parents and friends don't seem to exist. Consequently, she is trapped in a world of drunken sex and voyeurism masquerading as "art". The protagonist watches her through one-way glass as she cries herself to sleep or gets assaulted by customers. We see him grimace, glare, and occasionally react to what he sees. He's angry and violent. The movie wants you ask why. It wants you to feel for him in some way. The truth, however, is that he's scum and every time he gets knifed you pray for him to die and for the movie to come an end.
What else happens? There's rape. There's more rape. There's blood. There's piano music. There's attempted murder. There's more piano music. Oh, and there's lots of art-house pretension, lots of shots through the one-way glass trying to connect both the brutal man and his sex slave on some fundamental, emotional level.
Avoid this lousy movie. It's a pointless exercise at art-film without the necessary characters, acting, dialogue, or plot that a good film requires. I'd recommend a root canal instead.