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Originally Posted by Skuj
Hmmmm....initial embryonic reactions:
This was a damn good film. Intense and disorienting. Beautiful ending (beginning), brutal middle and start (ending), leaves me feeling genuinely sad. Much has been made about camera movements in this thread....the static camera during the rape scene was brilliant....there it was, no breather, no getting away from it. The centerpiece anchored, and shakey cameras and livid beahaviour emanating. I must watch this again soon, and I do respectfully disagree that it is a "bad" film. The only thing that might be bothering me is a possible homophobic element....anything that was gay was evil and in dark dungeons. I'll consider/rethink this on a subsequent viewing.
But I'm left shocked and sad. I think the very ending (beginning) will be overlooked by many.
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I agree with everything you say here, particularly about the sadness of the ending (sad being the perfect word to describe it). I was really moved by the film and found it hard to talk about straight after seeing it - the same thing happened to me straight after seeing Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves. I've only been able to watch either film once, finding them both brilliant, but too traumatic to return to. They're probably the only two films I could say that about.