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More I love the opening portrayal of the apocalypse where images in extreme, almost static, slowmotion are accompanied by grandiose, achingly beautiful classical music. It contains all the beauty, fear, longing and sadness that haunts the movie throughout.
For me melancholy, more than sadness, is closely connected to a sense of nostalgia. There is an ache for something lost, that you can't quite put your finger on. Perhaps a longing for childhood - a sense of being safe and carefree that…
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More Childhood nostalgia in full outbreak. I LOVED this film as a kid.
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This was the most depressing view on humanity I have ever seen and I guess that was the point.
Horrifically bleak, sadistic, badly acted and plastered with cheap visuals.
Exactly how many rapes do you need to stuff into your film to be 'edgy' and 'provocative'? Kim Ki-duk answers with five rapes in 15 minutes including a gang rape and rape of an unconscious woman. It worked! I'm provoked. But in no way provoked to actually reflect on the human condition, so what's the effing point?
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