Freeze Me (2000) Takashi Ishii

Genre: Thriller

Country: Japan |Director: Takashi Ishii

Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 |Length: 102mn

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 Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover and mistreats her again. Chihiro takes revenge, kills him and puts him in a freezer. The other rapists are awaiting a similar fate...

Fine film that is at once ugly and beautiful. It is superbly shot and the imagery almost magical. From the silently falling snow lit by the streetlight to the manga like cropped shots of the lovely heroine, the movie looks lovely but there is a truly evil undercurrent here that does not reflect well upon present day Japan. At its simplest this is a rape and revenge movie but it is done with much style and whilst the violence is horrific, the real horror here is the way the original rape is referred to and the way the rapists feel they can revisit their victim for seconds. Not only all that but that there is tacit acceptance by those around her both at home and in the workplace is an awful indictment of a lingering rotten core festering in the outwardly attractive Japanese culture.

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