死女？唔該畀把刀我

Deadgirl/USA/2008

「在多倫多電影節觀眾拍爛手掌，擺明車馬玩驚嚇....」

咁我估呢個係文化差異囉。

個故事係咁既。兩位有書唔讀只顧溝女的年輕人，闖入荒廢精神病院發現一條赤裸女喪屍，其中一位人兄竟然對半腐女屍起色心，把女屍當作私人洩慾工具，地下密室成私人炮房.....

「擺明車馬玩驚嚇」---- well, 條女喪屍好污遭，但一點都不驚嚇。無字幕，但閉上眼都明，因為根本就無故事可言，幾個男仔fuck來fuck去，shit來shit去，編劇把「究竟姦唔姦條屍好呢？」所產的所謂分歧，拍成「兄弟人足情」，簡直係無聊當有趣。

我看的那場正好導演也在，片一完credit也不敢看完就急急走人，大佬，個多小時裡如坐針氈，唔走我怕我忍不住舉手說︰「I've just wasted 2 hours in my life.」

後話︰看完有人在imdb的comment後，不得不承認，美中兩國之間真的存在很大很大的文化差異.....

I have a longer review of this, but unfortunately it breaches the 1k word limit of IMDb, so I will be rather succinct.

I had the pleasure of watching this at the Leeds Film Festival as part of Night of the Dead. At first I was apprehensive, expecting perhaps another 'torture-porn' indie film.

Instead, I got a powerful probe into the human psyche and the limits of human capability and barbarity. (!!!)

The two main characters are enthralling and thoroughly explored, it is this subtle psychological study juxtaposed with the stark brutality of the films heavier moments that make this so powerful. Gritty, grainy, and teetering between realism, fantasy, and science-fiction, deadgirl is a horror that raises the bar on context, delivery, and emotional impact. It is probably the best US horror I have seen in recent memory, and its rating here on IMDb seems to reflect people taking it on at a superficial value only. (!!!!!!!!!!!)

However, the film also knows is limits, it does not plunge into the sea of self indulgent artistic pretence. Instead, it stays afloat and allows you to glimpse down and take what you want from it, to empathise with who you deem worthy, and cast the sinister question of just what would YOU do in a room where society's laws are locked away in the background, your own state of nature in the metallic underbelly of an abandoned mental asylum. Would you return to the banality of suburban school life? Would you act on feral urge or try and do what you perceive to be the right thing.

Recommended.

(二。待續)