Vin Yan is neither a horror or a thriller. It would fall more under drama, however this mislabelling is the least of the problems with this film. This film lacks artistic merit, any claims that the cinematography is excellent is moot. National Geographics offers excellent cinematography without the excruciating experience of a clueless meandering plot.
The editing is shoddy at best. Editing should help to provide some sort of continuity and flow to the film. It helps with pace. This movie has the gate of a shuffling zombie. It's scenes jump from night to day, with no real semblance of natural flow. It feels like Du Welz sifted through his terrible shots, and picked the least terrible, then spliced them together in a rough order.
You not only have to suspend a portion of disbelief, you have to suspend all sense of intelligence to sit through this film. The premise of a boy lost in a tsunami, only to later appear in a video is shaky. The fact that a seemingly intelligent couple would hand over large sums of money to some shady character that can barely hold himself together is unbelievable. The fact that the wife's decent into madness would be overlooked and glossed over by her husband, who in a small way encourages this behaviour, is completely asinine.
What disturbed me the most was the final scene, where small young boys fondle and wash Emmanuelle Beart in mud. As a matter of fact this film is an indirect commentary on the exploitation of children. Du Welz seems to have needlessly shown young girls and boys of questionable age in various forms of nudity and undress. If anything, the main characters lack of empathy with the plight of these kids, and their single minded quest of madness is unsettling at best. Where was child services during the filming of this drek? Oh right, he shot this in Thailand where I'm sure the laws suited his exploitive needs, and where he could dispense with such trivialities as morality.
This film is devoid of redeeming qualities. I would not wish anyone to have to sit through this. If we are lucky, all evidence of this film will be erased from history, and we as a human race may claim our place at the top of the evolutionary chain once again.
Worst Movie Ever!
The editing is shoddy at best. Editing should help to provide some sort of continuity and flow to the film. It helps with pace. This movie has the gate of a shuffling zombie. It's scenes jump from night to day, with no real semblance of natural flow. It feels like Du Welz sifted through his terrible shots, and picked the least terrible, then spliced them together in a rough order.
You not only have to suspend a portion of disbelief, you have to suspend all sense of intelligence to sit through this film. The premise of a boy lost in a tsunami, only to later appear in a video is shaky. The fact that a seemingly intelligent couple would hand over large sums of money to some shady character that can barely hold himself together is unbelievable. The fact that the wife's decent into madness would be overlooked and glossed over by her husband, who in a small way encourages this behaviour, is completely asinine.
What disturbed me the most was the final scene, where small young boys fondle and wash Emmanuelle Beart in mud. As a matter of fact this film is an indirect commentary on the exploitation of children. Du Welz seems to have needlessly shown young girls and boys of questionable age in various forms of nudity and undress. If anything, the main characters lack of empathy with the plight of these kids, and their single minded quest of madness is unsettling at best. Where was child services during the filming of this drek? Oh right, he shot this in Thailand where I'm sure the laws suited his exploitive needs, and where he could dispense with such trivialities as morality.
This film is devoid of redeeming qualities. I would not wish anyone to have to sit through this. If we are lucky, all evidence of this film will be erased from history, and we as a human race may claim our place at the top of the evolutionary chain once again.
Worst Movie Ever!