ONLY GOD FORGIVES ****

4sur5 Diehard see suicidal , it's probably a sick movie , but in any case a real - world short film , an autarkic bubble , combining therapy and flamboyant projection of Western sensations on the East. The reception has been disastrous for this album arising after the Drive sacred. This story of revenge around Bangkok in Thailand has more to do with Valhalla Rising a new hagiography of Ryan Gosling .

Intentions are explicit Only God Forgives . Despite subtle writing ( Pusher trilogy ) , Winding Refn does not film scenarios ( except perhaps in Inside Job) , he plunges into the depths of his characters, is guided by animated fantasy , a faith over all the ideas . With ferocity , it manifests in this Only God will anchor emotions and situations through symbols ( enhanced by collaboration with the chief operator of Eyes Wide Shut ) , everything is in place for the convergence to the perfect representation . Breakthrough scenes follow , you can see the empty , there has yet to feel everything they exult . The characters are thrown into the ring and every moment we share their dizziness or give in to their whims .

This is of course the ultimate work style , different from portrait to Bronson and his notorious euphoria, it shows a path to renunciation and sublimation. Its archetypal mute , Winding Refn does a expressionless hero witnessed a mythology that crushes in which he seeks to melt ... and yet always returns to his impotent shell. The real pillars of the film are playing vigilante Chang extensions ( Vithaya Pansringarm ) and Julian's mother ( Kristin Scott Thomas , sexier and tortured than usual, still jaded Cruella ) , so associated condescending, accompanist fails, guardian disembodied and demoralizing , despite his sense of family . Behind Ryan Gosling disappears , depending on it's face in these two authority figures , these monsters enraged and melancholy , each in their own way , their manager overrun. Only God Forgives is the magnitude and outrageous solemnity of a Greek tragedy , and all players involved in it , by a slip defying our attention, but logically mooring in our minds.

We may hate Only God Forgives . Still, it is with Winding Refn a formalistic unique talent , subjecting the film box with a recklessness and a taste of the nightmare on film equivalent to David Lynch , perhaps , with the explicit rage , violence and romance rather than the strangeness and pure sacrifice for fundamental difference.

Overall rating 81