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BDSM Movie Review |
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2004 BDSM Movie of the Year |
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"Flower & Snake" |
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2004 - 115mins. - Rated R-rated version - Drama/Thriller- Director: Takashi Ishii Cast: Aya Sugimoto, others. |
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Superb, brutal, erotic, handsomely
produced sado-masochistic masterpiece from director Takeshi Ishii. It
could have been titled "Wife To Be Sacrificed" because Shizuko (Aya
Sugimoto), the wife of a wealthy businessman, is sacrificed in order to
pay off her husband's debts. Everything "Eyes Wide Shut" pretended to be
this is. It does not cower from its powerful subject matter or merely
titillate. It is the work of an incendiary artist with a firm grip on the
material and the material's ability to emotionally resonate. Sugimto, who
is one of the strongest, most stunning, most beautiful creatures ever to
ignite the cinema screen, is totally convincing as a woman plunged into a
cruel, nihilistic, carnal hell referred to only as The Coliseum. It is a
stadium-like space where the rich and powerful get their kicks watching
beautiful women assaulted, beaten, bound and, in some cases, murdered, in a
pretentious, circus-style setting. This is a big budget extravaganza of
ravishing perversion and beauty mixed with a violent white collar crime
plot. Ishii's direction of both the violent confrontations and sado-masochistic
set pieces is stunning. His camera dives, swirls, caresses and illuminates
the provocative tableaux. |
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