Original
Filipino title KINATAY [Butchered]
also known as THE EXECUTION OF P and CHOP
CHOP
director:
Brillante Mendoza
starring: Coco
Martin
· Maria
Isabel Lopez
· Julio
Diaz
· John
Regala
· Jhong
Hilario
· Lauren
Novero
A young
man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes
a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that it involves killing a woman.
Essentially, this is an intimate look
at how a person feels and acts when confronted with unsuspecting horror.
While there are obvious 'shocks' in this Award winning Filipino movie
(i.e., Best Director at Cannes 2010 Film Festival), this is not
a horror film in the strictest sense. The real horror here is 'awareness'
of everyday reality, that is... the terrible things humans do to each
other.
When
this film made its debut at Cannes in 2010, Quentin Tarantino was one
of the festival judges. As Quentin presented the best Director award to
Brillante Mendoza, he said: "You've done a remarkable job here. I
really felt like the eyewitness to a horrible murder. I became everything
I saw." On the other side of the coin, critic Roger Ebert wrote:
"Kinatay is the worst film ever screened in Cannes."
He added that he "wanted to apologize to Vince Gallo for saying the
same thing about his BROWN
BUNNY."
A
Filipino production with English subtitles; widescreen uncut (105 minutes)
NTSC DVD format, encoded for ALL REGION, playable on any American DVD
machine.
Extras include theatrical trailer.
Graphic
Violence/Nudity/Strong Sexual Situations/Rape/Sexual Brutality
Suggested for Mature Audiences
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