living in seduced circumstances
Since I haven't made a one-stop post on the films, I'm going to make multiple ones.
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writer/director : ian gamazon
stars : long ngyuyen, quynn ton
vietnamese w/ english subtitles
summary: as the trailer will indicate, a pregnant woman drugs, kidnaps, and ties up a man and proceeds to torture him. there's more to it though, of course
some real cool stuff I learned by lurking, and because the people I went with were awesome enough to go and find the director who was chilling with other directors:
-- the director is a one-man movie crew. Everything other than acting he did himself; camera, editing, make-up, etc.
-- IIRC this was filmed over the course of 3 days, but took over a year to edit
-- tom's bunny speech was about 40min of footage that got edited
-- the script was minimal, with the actors ad libbing the bulk of it
-- the boat story was all nguyen
the movie was described in the program as having violence/torture scenes as intense as 24. So, that said, if the torture scenes in 24 disturb you, this movie isn't for you. (I watched the film at night and didn't have nightmares, but YMMV) I'm reluctant to call the film torture porn, but the director says that's what it is. I'm not a fan of torture or slasher films, but I absolutely love this film. I also discovered I'm usually not too keen on the movies that are highly aesthetic (valuing art over money), but I still loved this experimental movie.
It's told through a fairy tale frame, the movie being divided into chapters, each with a fairy tale motif. The film is so horrifying at times in its violence, we laughed because there was nothing else to do (someone else said they were nauseated). It strikes a delicate blance of quirky, funny, terrifying, but mesmerizing. Couldn't take my eyes away. But above all, it's original. The music is like what you hear in the trailer, very light-hearted; a stark contrast to the violence. Also like fairy tales, violence, innocence, sex are all mixed up.
The people I went with took it that the woman was the daughter he'd sold, but I was the odd ball out and disagreed. That's probably because I wrote a whole essay on guilt and absolution in one of my lit classes. I took it as the man looking for why he would be punished and came up with that grievance.
When I said this was my favorite movie of the many I'd seen, someone said they thought I was too nice to like this. Like I said, this plays into my deep love of adult fairy tales. I would rewatch this, and quite honestly would buy it to support it.
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official page
writer/director : ian gamazon
stars : long ngyuyen, quynn ton
vietnamese w/ english subtitles
summary: as the trailer will indicate, a pregnant woman drugs, kidnaps, and ties up a man and proceeds to torture him. there's more to it though, of course
Click to viewsome real cool stuff I learned by lurking, and because the people I went with were awesome enough to go and find the director who was chilling with other directors:
-- the director is a one-man movie crew. Everything other than acting he did himself; camera, editing, make-up, etc.
-- IIRC this was filmed over the course of 3 days, but took over a year to edit
-- tom's bunny speech was about 40min of footage that got edited
-- the script was minimal, with the actors ad libbing the bulk of it
-- the boat story was all nguyen
the movie was described in the program as having violence/torture scenes as intense as 24. So, that said, if the torture scenes in 24 disturb you, this movie isn't for you. (I watched the film at night and didn't have nightmares, but YMMV) I'm reluctant to call the film torture porn, but the director says that's what it is. I'm not a fan of torture or slasher films, but I absolutely love this film. I also discovered I'm usually not too keen on the movies that are highly aesthetic (valuing art over money), but I still loved this experimental movie.
It's told through a fairy tale frame, the movie being divided into chapters, each with a fairy tale motif. The film is so horrifying at times in its violence, we laughed because there was nothing else to do (someone else said they were nauseated). It strikes a delicate blance of quirky, funny, terrifying, but mesmerizing. Couldn't take my eyes away. But above all, it's original. The music is like what you hear in the trailer, very light-hearted; a stark contrast to the violence. Also like fairy tales, violence, innocence, sex are all mixed up.
The people I went with took it that the woman was the daughter he'd sold, but I was the odd ball out and disagreed. That's probably because I wrote a whole essay on guilt and absolution in one of my lit classes. I took it as the man looking for why he would be punished and came up with that grievance.
When I said this was my favorite movie of the many I'd seen, someone said they thought I was too nice to like this. Like I said, this plays into my deep love of adult fairy tales. I would rewatch this, and quite honestly would buy it to support it.