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    The Wailing

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    A gore-smeared puzzle-box of a film. The first hour or so is very tongue-in-cheek. Like a small-town sitcom wherein oddness abounds, but the characters don't forget to go about their lives and have fun. Then, things descend into pure Dostoyevskian hell. The protagonist degenerates as he becomes an unwitting pawn in a seeming cosmic battle between good and evil. Or at least I think? Coz you see, that's the thing. The Wailing has so many different threads that it can be a real head-scratcher to determine what is a red herring or not. It's a fascinating exploration of morality and old religion versus new. But it's also made an endurance test because of it's interminable length and is so overwhelmingly bleak, that I have trouble saying I loved it. More that I admired the hell out of it. Definitely worth seeing, just be prepared to have your heart torn out of your chest and picked apart by taloned fingers.

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    benjibango@  4.8.2016 age: 18-25 188 reviews

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