Vancouver Film Festival
Last Wednesday, I went to the Vancouver Film Festival in Granville with 5 housemates. You may wonder, "What's so special about this film fest? Do you see film stars or what?" I don't know about film stars (because I didn't see any), but the films here have never been screened before in any part of the world, have not been reviewed (or censored/cut) by the film board, and they usually have bizzare (or eccentric/mature) themes.
The movie I watched was titled "La Cou-I-forgot-the-second-part-of-the-second-word-in-the-title-Oh-my-God" . Before the real movie started, there was a random short (weird) movie. It was about a woman being anaesthetize by a weird-looking doctor, who cut her heart (in the movie, you can see the heart - eew!) out (by the way, we saw her naked breast too). Then the heartless (literally) woman moves around like a zombie (!!). Then the woman's mother dresses her up in cute red clothes. Later the red-clothed, heartless woman and her mother and her husband and her child and the grave digger and the doctor gather in front of a grave made for the woman. The doctor gives her heart back, which she put back into her body and she smiles and everybody smiles and they have a tea-party. Then the scene changes into the doctor, looking wretched, who meets the woman whom he treated once. The woman smiles but she doesn't remember him. ~The end~ (One of the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life, besides a front-toothless God of Nature).
Now to the real movie: It started with a hot, steamy sex scene. Nudity here (no genitalia, sorry) but the heroine is not that gorgeous, methinks; I think perkypie, despite the fact that she is gaining weight, is hotter. I found out later that the heroine, who already has a husband and 2 not-so-lovely children, is frequently having hot, steamy sex with her more-good-looking-than-her-husband brother. The incestuous relationship started when they were travelling together as teenagers, ceased momentarily before and after her marriage, and continued a few weeks after her marriage. However, everyone around them turns a blind eye towards this damned relationship.
The heroine tries to get out of it by persuading her husband to apply for a position in a far away place (far from her brother), which he succeeds. So the family is about to move to another place now. A long, arduous, painstaking struggle ensued which sees the damned couple trying to separate coolly but unable to do so. Both of them tried to love another person (she her husband and the brother an extremely ugly girlfriend who somehow looks like her). To make things worse, her daughter (also rather ugly) fell in love with her brother and even offers to have sex with him (what!? a nece-uncle incest) which makes the movie more disturbing. When he rejects his niece, she questions him if it's ok to have sex with his own sister but not his niece? She then questions if the fact that she's his lover's daughter forbids him from having sex with her. He only answers, "I don't love you" and chases her out.
Later, the jealous daughter who is constantly being ignored by her uncle (who was always only eyeing the heroine) explicitly hints to the father (or heroine's husband) that the two commited incest. The husband gets jealous because the two females in his life never looked at him the way they look at the brother. Finally, the heroine admits to her husband that she loves her brother, something he has always strongly suspected/knew but never was willing to face. Unable to contain his jealousy and rage, he argues with the heroine (who promises him again and again that the problem is solved/will be solved when they move) and asks the brother to leave the heroine alone. But the husband and the lovers know it won't be resolved, ever, because the lovers need each other. And I forgot the ending.
The movie dragged on and on, and got repetitive, and got boring. And my feeling of surprise and horror (at the revelation of the incest) turned into agony and impatience because I couldn't wait for it to end. But then I realized, this was how the characters in the movie felt regarding the abnormal relationship, especially the lovers: they know that it is wrong, and they wanted it to end, but it wouldn't end, and they couldn't end it. The director did a good job by causing the audience experience the sort of emotions that the characters felt.
This was my virgin experience of seeing nudity and sex on theater. But that isn't the main point. I saw a good (although it's shocking and disturbing) movie, that's the main point.
The movie I watched was titled "La Cou-I-forgot-the-second-part-of-the-second-word-in-the-title-Oh-my-God" . Before the real movie started, there was a random short (weird) movie. It was about a woman being anaesthetize by a weird-looking doctor, who cut her heart (in the movie, you can see the heart - eew!) out (by the way, we saw her naked breast too). Then the heartless (literally) woman moves around like a zombie (!!). Then the woman's mother dresses her up in cute red clothes. Later the red-clothed, heartless woman and her mother and her husband and her child and the grave digger and the doctor gather in front of a grave made for the woman. The doctor gives her heart back, which she put back into her body and she smiles and everybody smiles and they have a tea-party. Then the scene changes into the doctor, looking wretched, who meets the woman whom he treated once. The woman smiles but she doesn't remember him. ~The end~ (One of the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life, besides a front-toothless God of Nature).
Now to the real movie: It started with a hot, steamy sex scene. Nudity here (no genitalia, sorry) but the heroine is not that gorgeous, methinks; I think perkypie, despite the fact that she is gaining weight, is hotter. I found out later that the heroine, who already has a husband and 2 not-so-lovely children, is frequently having hot, steamy sex with her more-good-looking-than-her-husband brother. The incestuous relationship started when they were travelling together as teenagers, ceased momentarily before and after her marriage, and continued a few weeks after her marriage. However, everyone around them turns a blind eye towards this damned relationship.
The heroine tries to get out of it by persuading her husband to apply for a position in a far away place (far from her brother), which he succeeds. So the family is about to move to another place now. A long, arduous, painstaking struggle ensued which sees the damned couple trying to separate coolly but unable to do so. Both of them tried to love another person (she her husband and the brother an extremely ugly girlfriend who somehow looks like her). To make things worse, her daughter (also rather ugly) fell in love with her brother and even offers to have sex with him (what!? a nece-uncle incest) which makes the movie more disturbing. When he rejects his niece, she questions him if it's ok to have sex with his own sister but not his niece? She then questions if the fact that she's his lover's daughter forbids him from having sex with her. He only answers, "I don't love you" and chases her out.
Later, the jealous daughter who is constantly being ignored by her uncle (who was always only eyeing the heroine) explicitly hints to the father (or heroine's husband) that the two commited incest. The husband gets jealous because the two females in his life never looked at him the way they look at the brother. Finally, the heroine admits to her husband that she loves her brother, something he has always strongly suspected/knew but never was willing to face. Unable to contain his jealousy and rage, he argues with the heroine (who promises him again and again that the problem is solved/will be solved when they move) and asks the brother to leave the heroine alone. But the husband and the lovers know it won't be resolved, ever, because the lovers need each other. And I forgot the ending.
The movie dragged on and on, and got repetitive, and got boring. And my feeling of surprise and horror (at the revelation of the incest) turned into agony and impatience because I couldn't wait for it to end. But then I realized, this was how the characters in the movie felt regarding the abnormal relationship, especially the lovers: they know that it is wrong, and they wanted it to end, but it wouldn't end, and they couldn't end it. The director did a good job by causing the audience experience the sort of emotions that the characters felt.
This was my virgin experience of seeing nudity and sex on theater. But that isn't the main point. I saw a good (although it's shocking and disturbing) movie, that's the main point.