Captivity

A good time to introduce everyone to a possibly a new contributor to this meaningless site - ex-political reporter K Kuppuswamy a.k.a the vietnamese pimp 'Nek'. It was his choice that cost us dear and I leave it to him to describe the disaster that was 'Captivity'. I agree with everything except that the 'Mission' being a flop - it just kind of reinforces the fact that Roland Joffe, in the little 20 minutes that we saw, is quite tight in his film-making.

K Kuppuswamy from here on:

Recent weather had suggested that fishing would not be a good idea, so Wenerd and I decided to take my girlie and his fiancee out to the movies. Problem was that there was nothing decent showing in the cinemas. In the end, on my prompting, we chose Captivity, which turned out to be a literally puke-worthy film. (The hint was director Roland Joffe, whom, I later found out, directed The Mission, a De Niro flop...)

Although the film looked well made - it was shot quite inventively, with lots of jarring close-ups and a play on mirrors and lenses - the content was something else. From what we could tell, the film centred on the torture of a beautiful woman and the raping of everyone's senses. This was sadomasochism of a kind which made Irreversible seem almost like a Disney cartoon. I would rather have watched an action movie starring Woody Allen.

The four of us, we left the theatre after 20 minutes, together with a German tourist who was blue in the face. As we stepped outside, the crusty old uncle who tears the tickets was roosting on his bench, and he said to us, "Wah so fast ah--Couldn't take it is it?" There was something ever-so-slightly mocking in his tone.

Rating: *