Slasher Supreme
If you consider yourself a slash appreciator and you haven't seen this film
- you really need to squeeze that into your busy schedule. This is Antonia Bird at her most weirdly wonderful, and to my recollection the only film I've seen where the score averts the film from the genre than it might have belonged to if Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn were not every bit as weird as Antonia Bird.
To my knowledge, Bird has done only two films with homoerotic content. They are extremely dissimilar. One of them, Priest (1994), is about a gay catholic priest. I recommend the ass out of that one, too! It has excellent writing and some fine acting. Plus, it has some of the best kissing scenes between two men I've personally ever seen.
While Priest is an intelligent social drama, Ravenous is... well, something else. For one thing, it's more in the lines of a self-styled B-movie. Also, it is slash. Which is to say, the homosexuality in it is metaphorical.
Glaswegian Robert Carlyle is in both. He's the love interest of the protagonist in the former and an outrageous, cannibalistic, erotically charged antagonist in the latter. Just thinking about the character always makes me smirk. Hannibal Lecter, eat your heart out, yes, pun intended. Just look at this guy:
Guy Pearce plays the main character, Boyd - a name that sounds significantly like "boy". Ravenous is from 1999, which is the year before Memento, and those of you who've seen that one will know what that says about his fit-ness. He. Is. Fine.
If he's looking somewhat dismayed here, it is because he has just realised that Carlyle's Col. Ives is next to invulnerable and would like to eat him. That's always a bit disconcerting.
The film is all about bloody filthy lovely man-on-man action; the theme of men eating each other would tend towards homoeroticism in most directors' hands. Bird just makes it moar so. And I do mean brimming with it. There is actual finger-licking going on. And the fights? Well. Here are a few caps:
Deeply satisfying. Not to mention hilarious, genre-defying, and like I said, profoundly weird :)
- you really need to squeeze that into your busy schedule. This is Antonia Bird at her most weirdly wonderful, and to my recollection the only film I've seen where the score averts the film from the genre than it might have belonged to if Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn were not every bit as weird as Antonia Bird.
To my knowledge, Bird has done only two films with homoerotic content. They are extremely dissimilar. One of them, Priest (1994), is about a gay catholic priest. I recommend the ass out of that one, too! It has excellent writing and some fine acting. Plus, it has some of the best kissing scenes between two men I've personally ever seen.
While Priest is an intelligent social drama, Ravenous is... well, something else. For one thing, it's more in the lines of a self-styled B-movie. Also, it is slash. Which is to say, the homosexuality in it is metaphorical.
Glaswegian Robert Carlyle is in both. He's the love interest of the protagonist in the former and an outrageous, cannibalistic, erotically charged antagonist in the latter. Just thinking about the character always makes me smirk. Hannibal Lecter, eat your heart out, yes, pun intended. Just look at this guy:
Guy Pearce plays the main character, Boyd - a name that sounds significantly like "boy". Ravenous is from 1999, which is the year before Memento, and those of you who've seen that one will know what that says about his fit-ness. He. Is. Fine.
If he's looking somewhat dismayed here, it is because he has just realised that Carlyle's Col. Ives is next to invulnerable and would like to eat him. That's always a bit disconcerting.
The film is all about bloody filthy lovely man-on-man action; the theme of men eating each other would tend towards homoeroticism in most directors' hands. Bird just makes it moar so. And I do mean brimming with it. There is actual finger-licking going on. And the fights? Well. Here are a few caps:
Deeply satisfying. Not to mention hilarious, genre-defying, and like I said, profoundly weird :)