What's the best measure of how good Slice is? Perhaps this; it's technically a vicious, blood-soaked police procedural about a dirty cop who finds himself tracking down a murderer, convinced a long-lost childhood friend is the killer he's after. But it's not the violence that has the most staying power, or the setpieces, or the plot beats - it's the overwhelming sense of loss after the credits roll, which delivers an emotional punch out of all proportion to a gritty, overblown thriller.
Though Kongkiat Khomsiri is credited as writer and director, the man behind the original story is Wisit Sasanatieng, he of Tears of the Black Tiger, Citizen Dog and The Unseeable. Regardless of who did what, Sasanatieng's fingerprints are all over Slice, from the sizzling colours in much of the production design, to the picture-postcard framing that recalls Tears, to the sepia-tinged flashbacks dotted through the running time.
While...
Though Kongkiat Khomsiri is credited as writer and director, the man behind the original story is Wisit Sasanatieng, he of Tears of the Black Tiger, Citizen Dog and The Unseeable. Regardless of who did what, Sasanatieng's fingerprints are all over Slice, from the sizzling colours in much of the production design, to the picture-postcard framing that recalls Tears, to the sepia-tinged flashbacks dotted through the running time.
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- 11/22/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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