Tina is not like everyone else. She know it herself and it has haunted her her entire life. First, she is burly, has pronounced brows and teeth. She has considered herself ugly all her life. Secondly, she can smell if anyone feels shame, is deceitful or likewise. Something that is very helpful in her job as a customs officer. She lives in a small cabin far out in the woods, and feel most at home in nature.
One day at work she meets Vore. Vore is mysterious. Powerful and full of secrets, but he also look similar to Tina, maybe he has more answers to Tina's life than she does. At the same time Tina get to help the polive in following up a bust she made in customs, a dark secret hidden behind closed door in the middle of the city.
Both events will lead to Tina reavluating her whole existence.
The movie is dark, not so much that it builds upon old lore but set in modern day society, but it reveals such evil among us. Both supernatural contained in the film but also such evil that exist in society today. It is a bold movie, a story daring to touch and handle such topics as child pornography, and it might not always end up with the answers you wish for. But that also makes it an uncomfortable watch, it is hard to really connect to the protagonists. The movie makes a point of the difference between Tina and Vore and us, both physically and mentally. That makes it hard to identify or even sympathize with either one of them. And the movie is filmed in a rough way, some cuts and camera movement seem unpolished, something that reinforces the uneasy feeling.
On the other hand, if you want a movie that is different, perhaps not so much with surprises but with a new kind of story, this is interesting. There are twists and some unexepected developments. This movie tells a story that you definitely won't see in mainstream cinema. It has been praised at several film festivals, most notably Cannes.
I really wanted to like it, wanted that it should live up to it's hype. The acting is really good, I like a movie that dares to take a step outside the normal comfort zone. But I did have too much of a problem connecting to, feeling for the characters, and therefore wasn't able to engage fully into the movie that a good movie makes you do.
It handles topics so it is impossible to call it entertaining. It raises questions, but the supernatural setting sets it apart from real world so they doesn't really stay with me. I don't regret seeing it, not at all, but it isn't one of those movies you remember...
One day at work she meets Vore. Vore is mysterious. Powerful and full of secrets, but he also look similar to Tina, maybe he has more answers to Tina's life than she does. At the same time Tina get to help the polive in following up a bust she made in customs, a dark secret hidden behind closed door in the middle of the city.
Both events will lead to Tina reavluating her whole existence.
The movie is dark, not so much that it builds upon old lore but set in modern day society, but it reveals such evil among us. Both supernatural contained in the film but also such evil that exist in society today. It is a bold movie, a story daring to touch and handle such topics as child pornography, and it might not always end up with the answers you wish for. But that also makes it an uncomfortable watch, it is hard to really connect to the protagonists. The movie makes a point of the difference between Tina and Vore and us, both physically and mentally. That makes it hard to identify or even sympathize with either one of them. And the movie is filmed in a rough way, some cuts and camera movement seem unpolished, something that reinforces the uneasy feeling.
On the other hand, if you want a movie that is different, perhaps not so much with surprises but with a new kind of story, this is interesting. There are twists and some unexepected developments. This movie tells a story that you definitely won't see in mainstream cinema. It has been praised at several film festivals, most notably Cannes.
I really wanted to like it, wanted that it should live up to it's hype. The acting is really good, I like a movie that dares to take a step outside the normal comfort zone. But I did have too much of a problem connecting to, feeling for the characters, and therefore wasn't able to engage fully into the movie that a good movie makes you do.
It handles topics so it is impossible to call it entertaining. It raises questions, but the supernatural setting sets it apart from real world so they doesn't really stay with me. I don't regret seeing it, not at all, but it isn't one of those movies you remember...