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What is this About?


There isn't a film desciption, but the cover looks very beautiful and sensual... If anyone here has seen this film could you post a brief description?

Thanks :)

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Jackie: We're not going to bed until one of three things happens: the hurricane ends, or we run out of rum.

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Jackie: Hmmm...

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OK, I've seen it now, so for the benefit of anyone who hasn't seen it, it is about a brother and sister who reunite after five years, during which time the brother sayed away from his sister, the "bad one" in the family. The sister lives a wild life, having previously used heavy drugs and prostituted herself. The brother turns up on her door and, because of various circumstances, they explore, in detail, their feelings for each other, and finally admit something neither thought they would ever be able to admit about themselves - that they are in love with each other, and always have been.

Despite the rather harsh themes dealt with by this film, it actually becomes a beautiful, touching portrayal of an unusual and forbidden relationship, and the audience is put in a position of wanting the brother and sister to get together (and I won't say whether they actually do!).

I was amazed by how good this film was. Admittedly, I do love Canadian films generally, but this one really touched me in a profound and meaningful way. I give it 10/10.

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Despite the rather harsh themes dealt with by this film, it actually becomes a beautiful, touching portrayal of an unusual and forbidden relationship, and the audience is put in a position of wanting the brother and sister to get together (and I won't say whether they actually do!).


Can't say that I found this to be beautiful or touching. Mostly I found the brother/sister relationship to be painful and twisted. You don't mention the numerous times the sister puts a plastic bag over her brother's head, trying to suffocate him (or merely to scare him), as well as threatening him with a kitchen knife or when he tries to suffocate her in revenge later on.

Just the way the sister asks her brother to be part of a threesome in the beginning is not very touching, nor is the way she sexually teases him throughout.

After all this, why would I want them to 'get together?'










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The thorns do not do away with a rose's beauty - rather, if they affect its beauty in any way, it is to accentuate the delicate beauty of its petals.

In the same way, there are some harsh themes here (which I discussed in my post which you quoted), but I think the thorns here make the love even more beautiful and precious. There is also the theme of being the "black sheep" of the family with the hypocrisy of how the brother was seen to be perfect and could do no wrong, while the sister was treated as a hopeless stuff-up, which the sister discussed in the scene with the knife (which was one of the best scenes in the film, in my opinion).

You describe the relationship as "painful and twisted", but you knew that this was about the resolution of a suppressed, incestuous love between a brother and a sister. It took a lot for them to come to a point where they could admit to themselves and to each other just how they truly felt, deep down inside, and they had to work through so many past hurts, suppressed feelings and desires to come to the resolution at the end. In my opinion, the pain and suffering the two characters work through/exorcise throughout the course of this film does not take away from the beauty of the love that they sare; if anything, it accentuates it and makes it so much more precious.

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Did we see the same film? I think you're romanticizing something that is essentially ugly--incestuous 'love.' How can it be beautiful? The brother and sister in this film are two screwed up people who don't really know what love is (the sister prostitutes herself for drugs and the brother once wanted to be a minister but got married, all the while lusting his sister). Seems to me it's more about lust than love.

On a different note, I didn't really get what those scenes with the sister sitting and talking in the theatre were supposed to mean. At first I thought it was her parole sessions, but then at the end they show her talking to her brother.

Also, I thought she said at one point that Martin was really the teddy bear. If so, why were the siblings talking about Martin like he was each of their lovers?

I really just didn't like this film, even though I liked the two actors. I've seen Emily Hampshire in other films, usually directed by Jacob Tierney. I have to say I like him better as a director than as an actor.






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Well, it's OK to disagree, I'm not trying to make you see or feel something you don't see or feel, but I definitely saw the beauty and the vulnerability of these two lost souls who, in a hostile world, finally come to admit their forbidden love, and find... each other.

I find that very romantic, and not at all "ugly". I was a goth girl in my youth, and I think it's fairly similar to the goth aethetic - seeing the beauty in decay, the rose made even more beautiful by its thorns - and so, in this film, I found the love even more beautiful because of how impossible and forbidden it was.

Of course I'm not advocating incest in real life - it is generally predatory and abusive. The story in this film, however, is about two equals, who find strength, love and beauty in each other, likr two lost souls sheltering together in the eye of a storm.

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