My names Ray, I'm at college studying business and play the guitar. :D
My names Ray, I'm at college studying business and play the guitar. :D
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This film revolves around the couple. David and Amy Sumner. I think the directors intention was for us to find it a hard film to watch. This is told by the first person camera angles during the famous and explicitly brutal 'Rape' scene. The term used loosely. David is a wimp.Meek & frail, Plain and simple, has no views on anything and just wants to live his life. Amy is the flirtacious wife and seems to hate everything about David.
Storyline: David and Amy Sumner return to Amys old cornish village so David can spend some time away from America and get some hard work done in peace. Unluckily, the local residents aren't quite as normal as they expected. The builders David hired to build his garage spend more time drinking and spying on his wife then actually working and this gets us anxious. As we can usually tell what will happen later. And it does. David is out hunting, when Amys old lover comes calling for her. He becomes forceful and soon forces himself on her. This is why the 'Rape' scene is so famous. She begins to enjoy it, and as this happens he becomes more loving and tender. Many of us would assume this may be a simple case of 'Stockholm Styndrome'. To identify with ones captors. Subsequently this makes it easier to watch. But the director then had the 'Rapists' (Charley Venner) friend come in with a shotgun. He then holds down the woman he supposedly loves while his friend rapes her from behind. This as we can easily see was real. This is a difficult scene to watch if you know anyone who has experienced rape. I for one do find it incredibly difficult so if you do have problems watching, its best not to.
After housing and protecting a local mentally disabled man accused of murdering a young girl, the cornish mob terrorize david and his wife while they house themselves inside. David then begins to protect himself. He seems to evolve into a state of Feral Readiness. Which usually involves a huge surge of adrenaline and confidence, reflexes are then subsequently used more extremely then before. Essentially becoming a real protective man. He sets multiple traps, hot oil and a huge bear trap at one point. The last person to die, isnt killed by David, but by Amy. David and Charley are struggling while Amy holds a loaded rifle. she has plenty of opportunity to kill the man but has trouble doing so. Possibly as she still loves him.
Characters dont develop as much as they should except for David who seems to bloom into a killing machine to defend his wife and his house. Amy took a sick fascination with trying to turn her husband into a 'Man'. Its a difficult film to watch possibly due to the strange storyline and dodgy characters.
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Soho_Black 11.02.2008 21:33
I see you've posted this as a DVD review, but you've not mentioned the DVD features. Are there any extras? If so, what are they and are they any good? If you add to this, or if you change it to be posted as a "Film Only" review, which can be done by accessing "edit review" above the review and changing the drop down menu under the "Which format are you reviewing?" question at the bottom, please let me know and I'll re-rate.
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