sl-38118
Joined Dec 2023
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sl-38118's rating
Basically a one-character film: a dumpy-looking middle-aged bear who scores above his attractiveness rating and is obsessed with sleazy erotic dreams (which are quite imaginatively filmed, if not quite on the level of, say, Fassbinder's *Querelle* in terms of color and lighting). Oh, and his jealousies.
The rest of the characters are seriously underdeveloped and not terribly interesting except perhaps for the female coworker who turns 40.
The oral sex looks to be very real, but the director cops out on the anal. I would've found it more honest if all the sex were either hinted at, or all of it genuine.
As far as the natural scenery is concerned, good lord has rampant capitalism made a wasteland out of Brazil.
The rest of the characters are seriously underdeveloped and not terribly interesting except perhaps for the female coworker who turns 40.
The oral sex looks to be very real, but the director cops out on the anal. I would've found it more honest if all the sex were either hinted at, or all of it genuine.
As far as the natural scenery is concerned, good lord has rampant capitalism made a wasteland out of Brazil.
Ludicrously inept plot -- this is Stephen King?. Somehow we're supposed to believe that farmers, of all people the most adept at efficient killing next to, say, contract murderers, would perform a sloppy murder, and then get away with it, seeing as the victim had every reason NOT to vanish into thin air and her body was so poorly disposed of.
Worse, the victim is depicted as unrelievedly hateful, with no redeeming features: the drunk scene in particular lays it all on with ... a trowel? No, a forklift.
I gather that the plot was subsequently directed toward some great moral revelation . . . Oh gag me.
Thomas Jane's performance was quite good, almost good enough to compensate for the absurdly incongruous sci-fi horror soundtrack.
Worse, the victim is depicted as unrelievedly hateful, with no redeeming features: the drunk scene in particular lays it all on with ... a trowel? No, a forklift.
I gather that the plot was subsequently directed toward some great moral revelation . . . Oh gag me.
Thomas Jane's performance was quite good, almost good enough to compensate for the absurdly incongruous sci-fi horror soundtrack.