For Sama10. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. And it’s understandable that the film both sent some people running for the exits, and others bowing down in praise. A Beautiful DayClick Here for Thoughts, Adam's Top 10 - 20191. So for this new installment, let’s begin with 2013′s Only God Forgives! Only God Forgives could be read as an act of meta self-indictment, in which a visiting filmmaker acknowledges his exploitation of another culture by punishing the Western bloodsuckers who populate his story. The film’s both hearty applause and impassioned boos still holds to this day, with the latter seeming to be a lot louder, with many calling the film “slow and dull” or “needlessly brutal and showy.” And while I can see some validation in some of those remarks, this ultraviolent, creepy, neon sheened enriched-uranium cake of pulp simply has too much to salivate over for me to simply and passionately dismiss. I’m not so sure, and Only God Forgives isn’t compelling enough for me to give it the benefit of the doubt. Only God Forgives has a brutal beginning, in which Julian’s brother Billy (Tom Burke) goes on a bender of horrific sexual violence. With that as the concept, I elaborated by adding a character who believes he is God (Chang), obviously the antagonist, with the protagonist being a gangster who is looking for religion to believe in (Julian).
In "Only God Forgives," the director goes even further to suggest there is elegance to brutality. Do you have and/or need an editor? As Julian, a Bangkok drug dealer and fight-club operator, Gosling’s lids rarely lower. I’m afraid that’s where we’re at here. Tell that to the guy who just had his hands lopped off. The Playlist also reminds us that Refn originally had Luke Evans set for the lead of Julian, before it went back to Gosling. While we've seen plenty of awesome trailers and footage so far, this is still one of my most anticipated of the summer.
Yet that and every other affectation – his slow walk, his curt speech, his stoicism while watching a prostitute masturbate – is a minimalist way of calling attention to itself. Stylistically, Only God Forgives has been compared to two of the other great modern provocateurs, David Lynch and Gaspar Noé (the latter was even given a special thanks credit). But for him his career took on a whole new level with the release of his 2011 film Drive, which saw him take home the Best Director prize at Cannes and deliver as a big box-office success. Drive, from its hot-pink titles to its casting of Christina Hendricks, felt like the apotheosis of Refn’s lurid style, the high point just before it tipped over into self parody. Only God Forgives (2013) Director: Nicolas Winding Refn (Scene: 01:02:48 - 01:07:56). "Oddly, I'd written the screenplay before I made Drive and Julian had been conceived as a very silent character. Long Shot8.
( Log Out / None of this is new to Refn, who also made the ferociously alive Bronson and the existentially epic Valhalla Rising.
Oh, we’re not done yet. How about that headline instead? With hindsight, I am able to see the similarities between Chang and One Eye in Valhalla Rising, and Driver in Drive - all are rooted in fairytale mythology and have difficulties living in the everyday world. In his previous film, Drive (2011), his unnamed hero was elevated into a superhero over the course of the film, while the film itself made use of the Scorpion and the Frog fable.
With hindsight I can't imagine another actor playing this role. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. In Only God Forgives, his influences run a little … That brings him to the attention of Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), an older, vigilante cop.
Parasite2. It already reminds me of 2011, where I caught the world premiere of Drive in Cannes (my review), also starring Gosling directed by Refn. And while still battling both, it leads Julian — clenched and unhappy in the three-piece suit he has put on for a dinner date with his mother, and never takes off — realizes he has to challenge Chang to a fight. This means Julian is choosing to literally sever his violent past and atone for his sins, and that "God" forgives him. One that I, at least, thinks that it deserves some re-evaluation.
Now I consider this a blessing because it allowed Ryan and me to continue our collaboration," Refn says. With the festival only a week away, marketing material has started to arrive, and The Playlist found the full director's statement and some new photos in the press notes for the film. Once Upon a Time3. Sorry, new comments are no longer allowed.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives (2014) draws influence from a variety of complex sources. The cinematographer, ... Julian tentatively reaches his right arm into the void, only to have it get lopped off by Chang just as Mai reaches orgasm. Now that everything is colliding, it may end up turning things upside-down for me. Change ), on In Defense Of: Only God Forgives (2013). Uncut Gems9. Maï’s face shows how touched and moved she is when she realizes Julian wants her to meet his mother — and then becomes quietly and deeply wounded when Julian says that they must “pretend to be a couple.” It’s only Maï who emerges from the dinner, and indeed the movie, with any dignity and self-respect.
Rise of Skywalker7.
In Drive, Driver is defined by his function.
In Valhalla Rising, One Eye is enigmatic - we don't know his past but he is defined by his name. With 14 posts a day mistakes happen, but I'm happy to fix them. But where does that leave Julian? When one night comes and Billy indulges too far into his taste for violence and misogyny, and is himself murdered by his victim’s father, Julian realizes that he is expected to discharge the gangster’s ultimate responsibility: revenge.
And with those corridors there’s also Larry Smith’s lavish …
When Julian has to go for dinner with his mother, he clearly anticipates it will be an occasion in which Crystal will pitilessly humiliate him about his cowardice (and the size of his genitals). Only God Forgives exerts an eerie and woozy grip right from the outset, with many nightmarish scenes of people walking down long, claustrophobic, purgatory-like corridors with pulsing displays of color, all while Cliff Martinez’s score of a delicate cacophony of tribal drums and wind chimes gives the film a foreboding, rhythmic pace. "Another actor was supposed to play Julian but pulled out close to shooting.
There was originally another scene scripted where an armless Julian is fed by Mai, signaling something of a happy ending for the character, but it wasn't shot.
Only God Forgives lets go and, like Valhalla Rising, functions more as a dream (or a nightmare). Little Women9.
And in Only God Forgives, Chang is first of all defined by his enigmatic behaviour, to such an extent that he becomes a disembodied character, an 'it', defined not by his name but solely by his image. This is a very violent, but bizarrely infernal creation, an entire created world of gripping fear. Here's the full "directors statement" from Nicolas Winding Refn in the Only God Forgives press notes: The original concept for the film was to make a movie about a man who wants to fight God. That is, of course, a very vast obstacle but when I was writing the film, I was going through some very existential times in my life - we were expecting our second child and it was a difficult pregnancy - and the idea of having a character who wants to fight God without knowing why very much appealed to me. The other is the mysterious plainclothes police officer Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), who roams the streets armed with a sword: a sharia-samurai of justice. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Only God Forgives premieres at the Cannes Film Festival on May 22nd, and will open in limited theaters starting on July 19th this summer. Consider it ostentatious inertness. I think it even gets its own, red spotlight. When it came time for Refn to deliver on a follow-up, he reunited with his Drive front-man Ryan Gosling for Only God Forgives, a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad crime film set in Bangkok that delivered as one of the most divisive Cannes responses in recent years (if you’re a fan of the critical aggregators, the film holds a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 37 on Metacritic). In this way, the film is conceived as an answer, with the question revealed at the end.
An editor adds unnecessary delay and costs.
Knives Out6. 191710. And however wild that (literally) sounds, Only God Forgives has genuine moments of subtlety to go along with the big over-the-top moments.
Only God Forgives is only going to be (remotely) pleasurable to those who are curious fans of the director's work, or those who indulge in arthouse films.
I can see that technically, there is a resemblance in their stoic behavior, silence, and fetishistic portraits even though they live in different times and are portrayed by different actors. The headline makes ZERO sense. The Farewell5. Blinded by Light7. In the trailers, Chang is the one walking around with the sword, played by Thai actor Vithaya Pansringarm. Yet even if that’s the case, there’s something hypocritical to the entire project. Find more posts: Cannes 13, Cool Stuff, Indies, Movie News.
When the violence comes in the film, it does so in ear-punching thunder claps — fetishized scenes of bodily multination that are often prolonged, the camera merciless and unblinking, intensifying the sensation of being trapped inside someone else’s nightmare, of which, I would say, push it away from being gratuitous.
For Sama10. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. And it’s understandable that the film both sent some people running for the exits, and others bowing down in praise. A Beautiful DayClick Here for Thoughts, Adam's Top 10 - 20191. So for this new installment, let’s begin with 2013′s Only God Forgives! Only God Forgives could be read as an act of meta self-indictment, in which a visiting filmmaker acknowledges his exploitation of another culture by punishing the Western bloodsuckers who populate his story. The film’s both hearty applause and impassioned boos still holds to this day, with the latter seeming to be a lot louder, with many calling the film “slow and dull” or “needlessly brutal and showy.” And while I can see some validation in some of those remarks, this ultraviolent, creepy, neon sheened enriched-uranium cake of pulp simply has too much to salivate over for me to simply and passionately dismiss. I’m not so sure, and Only God Forgives isn’t compelling enough for me to give it the benefit of the doubt. Only God Forgives has a brutal beginning, in which Julian’s brother Billy (Tom Burke) goes on a bender of horrific sexual violence. With that as the concept, I elaborated by adding a character who believes he is God (Chang), obviously the antagonist, with the protagonist being a gangster who is looking for religion to believe in (Julian).
In "Only God Forgives," the director goes even further to suggest there is elegance to brutality. Do you have and/or need an editor? As Julian, a Bangkok drug dealer and fight-club operator, Gosling’s lids rarely lower. I’m afraid that’s where we’re at here. Tell that to the guy who just had his hands lopped off. The Playlist also reminds us that Refn originally had Luke Evans set for the lead of Julian, before it went back to Gosling. While we've seen plenty of awesome trailers and footage so far, this is still one of my most anticipated of the summer.
Yet that and every other affectation – his slow walk, his curt speech, his stoicism while watching a prostitute masturbate – is a minimalist way of calling attention to itself. Stylistically, Only God Forgives has been compared to two of the other great modern provocateurs, David Lynch and Gaspar Noé (the latter was even given a special thanks credit). But for him his career took on a whole new level with the release of his 2011 film Drive, which saw him take home the Best Director prize at Cannes and deliver as a big box-office success. Drive, from its hot-pink titles to its casting of Christina Hendricks, felt like the apotheosis of Refn’s lurid style, the high point just before it tipped over into self parody. Only God Forgives (2013) Director: Nicolas Winding Refn (Scene: 01:02:48 - 01:07:56). "Oddly, I'd written the screenplay before I made Drive and Julian had been conceived as a very silent character. Long Shot8.
( Log Out / None of this is new to Refn, who also made the ferociously alive Bronson and the existentially epic Valhalla Rising.
Oh, we’re not done yet. How about that headline instead? With hindsight, I am able to see the similarities between Chang and One Eye in Valhalla Rising, and Driver in Drive - all are rooted in fairytale mythology and have difficulties living in the everyday world. In his previous film, Drive (2011), his unnamed hero was elevated into a superhero over the course of the film, while the film itself made use of the Scorpion and the Frog fable.
With hindsight I can't imagine another actor playing this role. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. In Only God Forgives, his influences run a little … That brings him to the attention of Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), an older, vigilante cop.
Parasite2. It already reminds me of 2011, where I caught the world premiere of Drive in Cannes (my review), also starring Gosling directed by Refn. And while still battling both, it leads Julian — clenched and unhappy in the three-piece suit he has put on for a dinner date with his mother, and never takes off — realizes he has to challenge Chang to a fight. This means Julian is choosing to literally sever his violent past and atone for his sins, and that "God" forgives him. One that I, at least, thinks that it deserves some re-evaluation.
Now I consider this a blessing because it allowed Ryan and me to continue our collaboration," Refn says. With the festival only a week away, marketing material has started to arrive, and The Playlist found the full director's statement and some new photos in the press notes for the film. Once Upon a Time3. Sorry, new comments are no longer allowed.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives (2014) draws influence from a variety of complex sources. The cinematographer, ... Julian tentatively reaches his right arm into the void, only to have it get lopped off by Chang just as Mai reaches orgasm. Now that everything is colliding, it may end up turning things upside-down for me. Change ), on In Defense Of: Only God Forgives (2013). Uncut Gems9. Maï’s face shows how touched and moved she is when she realizes Julian wants her to meet his mother — and then becomes quietly and deeply wounded when Julian says that they must “pretend to be a couple.” It’s only Maï who emerges from the dinner, and indeed the movie, with any dignity and self-respect.
Rise of Skywalker7.
In Drive, Driver is defined by his function.
In Valhalla Rising, One Eye is enigmatic - we don't know his past but he is defined by his name. With 14 posts a day mistakes happen, but I'm happy to fix them. But where does that leave Julian? When one night comes and Billy indulges too far into his taste for violence and misogyny, and is himself murdered by his victim’s father, Julian realizes that he is expected to discharge the gangster’s ultimate responsibility: revenge.
And with those corridors there’s also Larry Smith’s lavish …
When Julian has to go for dinner with his mother, he clearly anticipates it will be an occasion in which Crystal will pitilessly humiliate him about his cowardice (and the size of his genitals). Only God Forgives exerts an eerie and woozy grip right from the outset, with many nightmarish scenes of people walking down long, claustrophobic, purgatory-like corridors with pulsing displays of color, all while Cliff Martinez’s score of a delicate cacophony of tribal drums and wind chimes gives the film a foreboding, rhythmic pace. "Another actor was supposed to play Julian but pulled out close to shooting.
There was originally another scene scripted where an armless Julian is fed by Mai, signaling something of a happy ending for the character, but it wasn't shot.
Only God Forgives lets go and, like Valhalla Rising, functions more as a dream (or a nightmare). Little Women9.
And in Only God Forgives, Chang is first of all defined by his enigmatic behaviour, to such an extent that he becomes a disembodied character, an 'it', defined not by his name but solely by his image. This is a very violent, but bizarrely infernal creation, an entire created world of gripping fear. Here's the full "directors statement" from Nicolas Winding Refn in the Only God Forgives press notes: The original concept for the film was to make a movie about a man who wants to fight God. That is, of course, a very vast obstacle but when I was writing the film, I was going through some very existential times in my life - we were expecting our second child and it was a difficult pregnancy - and the idea of having a character who wants to fight God without knowing why very much appealed to me. The other is the mysterious plainclothes police officer Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), who roams the streets armed with a sword: a sharia-samurai of justice. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Only God Forgives premieres at the Cannes Film Festival on May 22nd, and will open in limited theaters starting on July 19th this summer. Consider it ostentatious inertness. I think it even gets its own, red spotlight. When it came time for Refn to deliver on a follow-up, he reunited with his Drive front-man Ryan Gosling for Only God Forgives, a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad crime film set in Bangkok that delivered as one of the most divisive Cannes responses in recent years (if you’re a fan of the critical aggregators, the film holds a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 37 on Metacritic). In this way, the film is conceived as an answer, with the question revealed at the end.
An editor adds unnecessary delay and costs.
Knives Out6. 191710. And however wild that (literally) sounds, Only God Forgives has genuine moments of subtlety to go along with the big over-the-top moments.
Only God Forgives is only going to be (remotely) pleasurable to those who are curious fans of the director's work, or those who indulge in arthouse films.
I can see that technically, there is a resemblance in their stoic behavior, silence, and fetishistic portraits even though they live in different times and are portrayed by different actors. The headline makes ZERO sense. The Farewell5. Blinded by Light7. In the trailers, Chang is the one walking around with the sword, played by Thai actor Vithaya Pansringarm. Yet even if that’s the case, there’s something hypocritical to the entire project. Find more posts: Cannes 13, Cool Stuff, Indies, Movie News.
When the violence comes in the film, it does so in ear-punching thunder claps — fetishized scenes of bodily multination that are often prolonged, the camera merciless and unblinking, intensifying the sensation of being trapped inside someone else’s nightmare, of which, I would say, push it away from being gratuitous.
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In a way, Only God Forgives is like an accumulation of all the films I've made so far.
Special Note: “In Defense Of” is a column series where I defend films that were not only panned in their initial release; that not only do I find to be pretty good, but also to hopefully encourage people to go back and re-evaluate them. If it’s possible to overact while barely blinking, Ryan Gosling achieves it in Only God Forgives, his second film, after the delirious Drive, with Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. This time the two head to Thailand for a bloody revenge film about a kickboxer and a gangster named Chang.
I think I was heading toward a creative collision, full speed ahead, in order to change everything around me and to see what would come after. I suppose we’re supposed to care, but here (unlike in Drive) Gosling is little more than another element of the production design.
Parasite2. And in Only God Forgives, Chang is first of all defined by his enigmatic behaviour, to such an extent that he becomes a disembodied character, an 'it', defined not by his name but solely by his image. But the film still feels very much like a Refn film, with obvious elements being the violence, the creepy, slow-moving mood, and the wild color palette (the latter which actually comes from Refn’s inability to see mid-colors because of his color blindness). Julian craves power, and sexual satisfaction, but he fears humiliation—but he also craves … I respect your rational approach to comments, Alex. Marriage Story5. Disgusted by the sex trade that preys upon his country’s young women and the vile Westerners, like Julian and Billy, who perpetuate it, Chang enacts his own brand of gruesome retribution. This inability brings two terrifying people into his life and into the movie: one is Julian’s mother Crystal (Kristen Scott Thomas), who’s enraged at Julian’s pathetic disloyalty.
And all too often. ( Log Out / Privacy Policy | MuckRack ➚ | Twitter ➚ | Letterboxd ➚. I love what how he ends saying the enemy of creativity is "being safe" and I can't wait to see how his version of "a movie about a man who wants to fight God" turns out. Yet in the please-like-me! The Specials6. Last Black Man SF3. ( Log Out / All rights reserved.
For Sama10. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. And it’s understandable that the film both sent some people running for the exits, and others bowing down in praise. A Beautiful DayClick Here for Thoughts, Adam's Top 10 - 20191. So for this new installment, let’s begin with 2013′s Only God Forgives! Only God Forgives could be read as an act of meta self-indictment, in which a visiting filmmaker acknowledges his exploitation of another culture by punishing the Western bloodsuckers who populate his story. The film’s both hearty applause and impassioned boos still holds to this day, with the latter seeming to be a lot louder, with many calling the film “slow and dull” or “needlessly brutal and showy.” And while I can see some validation in some of those remarks, this ultraviolent, creepy, neon sheened enriched-uranium cake of pulp simply has too much to salivate over for me to simply and passionately dismiss. I’m not so sure, and Only God Forgives isn’t compelling enough for me to give it the benefit of the doubt. Only God Forgives has a brutal beginning, in which Julian’s brother Billy (Tom Burke) goes on a bender of horrific sexual violence. With that as the concept, I elaborated by adding a character who believes he is God (Chang), obviously the antagonist, with the protagonist being a gangster who is looking for religion to believe in (Julian).
In "Only God Forgives," the director goes even further to suggest there is elegance to brutality. Do you have and/or need an editor? As Julian, a Bangkok drug dealer and fight-club operator, Gosling’s lids rarely lower. I’m afraid that’s where we’re at here. Tell that to the guy who just had his hands lopped off. The Playlist also reminds us that Refn originally had Luke Evans set for the lead of Julian, before it went back to Gosling. While we've seen plenty of awesome trailers and footage so far, this is still one of my most anticipated of the summer.
Yet that and every other affectation – his slow walk, his curt speech, his stoicism while watching a prostitute masturbate – is a minimalist way of calling attention to itself. Stylistically, Only God Forgives has been compared to two of the other great modern provocateurs, David Lynch and Gaspar Noé (the latter was even given a special thanks credit). But for him his career took on a whole new level with the release of his 2011 film Drive, which saw him take home the Best Director prize at Cannes and deliver as a big box-office success. Drive, from its hot-pink titles to its casting of Christina Hendricks, felt like the apotheosis of Refn’s lurid style, the high point just before it tipped over into self parody. Only God Forgives (2013) Director: Nicolas Winding Refn (Scene: 01:02:48 - 01:07:56). "Oddly, I'd written the screenplay before I made Drive and Julian had been conceived as a very silent character. Long Shot8.
( Log Out / None of this is new to Refn, who also made the ferociously alive Bronson and the existentially epic Valhalla Rising.
Oh, we’re not done yet. How about that headline instead? With hindsight, I am able to see the similarities between Chang and One Eye in Valhalla Rising, and Driver in Drive - all are rooted in fairytale mythology and have difficulties living in the everyday world. In his previous film, Drive (2011), his unnamed hero was elevated into a superhero over the course of the film, while the film itself made use of the Scorpion and the Frog fable.
With hindsight I can't imagine another actor playing this role. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. In Only God Forgives, his influences run a little … That brings him to the attention of Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), an older, vigilante cop.
Parasite2. It already reminds me of 2011, where I caught the world premiere of Drive in Cannes (my review), also starring Gosling directed by Refn. And while still battling both, it leads Julian — clenched and unhappy in the three-piece suit he has put on for a dinner date with his mother, and never takes off — realizes he has to challenge Chang to a fight. This means Julian is choosing to literally sever his violent past and atone for his sins, and that "God" forgives him. One that I, at least, thinks that it deserves some re-evaluation.
Now I consider this a blessing because it allowed Ryan and me to continue our collaboration," Refn says. With the festival only a week away, marketing material has started to arrive, and The Playlist found the full director's statement and some new photos in the press notes for the film. Once Upon a Time3. Sorry, new comments are no longer allowed.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives (2014) draws influence from a variety of complex sources. The cinematographer, ... Julian tentatively reaches his right arm into the void, only to have it get lopped off by Chang just as Mai reaches orgasm. Now that everything is colliding, it may end up turning things upside-down for me. Change ), on In Defense Of: Only God Forgives (2013). Uncut Gems9. Maï’s face shows how touched and moved she is when she realizes Julian wants her to meet his mother — and then becomes quietly and deeply wounded when Julian says that they must “pretend to be a couple.” It’s only Maï who emerges from the dinner, and indeed the movie, with any dignity and self-respect.
Rise of Skywalker7.
In Drive, Driver is defined by his function.
In Valhalla Rising, One Eye is enigmatic - we don't know his past but he is defined by his name. With 14 posts a day mistakes happen, but I'm happy to fix them. But where does that leave Julian? When one night comes and Billy indulges too far into his taste for violence and misogyny, and is himself murdered by his victim’s father, Julian realizes that he is expected to discharge the gangster’s ultimate responsibility: revenge.
And with those corridors there’s also Larry Smith’s lavish …
When Julian has to go for dinner with his mother, he clearly anticipates it will be an occasion in which Crystal will pitilessly humiliate him about his cowardice (and the size of his genitals). Only God Forgives exerts an eerie and woozy grip right from the outset, with many nightmarish scenes of people walking down long, claustrophobic, purgatory-like corridors with pulsing displays of color, all while Cliff Martinez’s score of a delicate cacophony of tribal drums and wind chimes gives the film a foreboding, rhythmic pace. "Another actor was supposed to play Julian but pulled out close to shooting.
There was originally another scene scripted where an armless Julian is fed by Mai, signaling something of a happy ending for the character, but it wasn't shot.
Only God Forgives lets go and, like Valhalla Rising, functions more as a dream (or a nightmare). Little Women9.
And in Only God Forgives, Chang is first of all defined by his enigmatic behaviour, to such an extent that he becomes a disembodied character, an 'it', defined not by his name but solely by his image. This is a very violent, but bizarrely infernal creation, an entire created world of gripping fear. Here's the full "directors statement" from Nicolas Winding Refn in the Only God Forgives press notes: The original concept for the film was to make a movie about a man who wants to fight God. That is, of course, a very vast obstacle but when I was writing the film, I was going through some very existential times in my life - we were expecting our second child and it was a difficult pregnancy - and the idea of having a character who wants to fight God without knowing why very much appealed to me. The other is the mysterious plainclothes police officer Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), who roams the streets armed with a sword: a sharia-samurai of justice. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Only God Forgives premieres at the Cannes Film Festival on May 22nd, and will open in limited theaters starting on July 19th this summer. Consider it ostentatious inertness. I think it even gets its own, red spotlight. When it came time for Refn to deliver on a follow-up, he reunited with his Drive front-man Ryan Gosling for Only God Forgives, a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad crime film set in Bangkok that delivered as one of the most divisive Cannes responses in recent years (if you’re a fan of the critical aggregators, the film holds a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 37 on Metacritic). In this way, the film is conceived as an answer, with the question revealed at the end.
An editor adds unnecessary delay and costs.
Knives Out6. 191710. And however wild that (literally) sounds, Only God Forgives has genuine moments of subtlety to go along with the big over-the-top moments.
Only God Forgives is only going to be (remotely) pleasurable to those who are curious fans of the director's work, or those who indulge in arthouse films.
I can see that technically, there is a resemblance in their stoic behavior, silence, and fetishistic portraits even though they live in different times and are portrayed by different actors. The headline makes ZERO sense. The Farewell5. Blinded by Light7. In the trailers, Chang is the one walking around with the sword, played by Thai actor Vithaya Pansringarm. Yet even if that’s the case, there’s something hypocritical to the entire project. Find more posts: Cannes 13, Cool Stuff, Indies, Movie News.
When the violence comes in the film, it does so in ear-punching thunder claps — fetishized scenes of bodily multination that are often prolonged, the camera merciless and unblinking, intensifying the sensation of being trapped inside someone else’s nightmare, of which, I would say, push it away from being gratuitous.
