The Vulgars Who Knew The Truth and Lived: Kinatay Reviewed
Jessica Zafra/Newsweek/Brillante Mendoza's "Kinatay":
"Brillante Mendoza's film Kinatay(Slaughtered) is so grim and gruesome that it didn't even divide audiences and critics when it screened at Cannes last month; it united them in hatred and disgust. Shot on film and video, the Philippine director's latest offering is about a young police cadet who finds himself participating in the grisly murder of a prostitute. Stark and unrelenting, it presents torture, rape and mutilation in a manner reminiscent of snuff movies. Viewers booed it and reviewers described it as "horrible"; the American critic Roger Ebert pronounced it the worst film ever to screen at the festival."
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In a market:
"How long shall dis ax last? The blowing decor, its crash attacks, a hugging rig, stomaching in pains, Full of faces in near-death patterns mode has it seen lizards?Broken down into pieces shells of corns? Has it burnt seeds flakes?Flaked up,wouldnt it be as one with bigs, devouring lashes, laced up from bolts decor? A decorum. Will pangs break it?As a bite sits or sets afloat in dark dust river, shall it commence, a wavering daring dash of consistencies?Patterns paternal. Whoever makes it can it not eat itself?Shattering shines of lucid, honest flickers..."
In the preacher's home:
"turn me inisde out, buddy. Is it my body ur trying to get some innards from?Was strucute-based spit noe enough for you? Hasn't it been to your liking?Then turn me inside out now. Let's see
whose blood flows out of the skin first. Jaging, jaging...Bring me there and make my body the edge of its sinking, a random hoover, it's better than me, dont u think..."
On the skin inside the head of a surgeon's patient:
"trade in the bionics for flesh quids/fish traps devour souls by the minute/exhausts. Fortunate dwellers in a couple of days/escape? Get things fout of the cabin/trade in the basics. Deceased are the dogs.One hundred dark dry chicken skins become fresh squids, painless, worn/out, rotten, in the dark..."
On the walls of a baby's crib
"the lack of rhymes, get by, get by,"
In a rapist's home:
"He was given a bag of goods he was supposed to consume by tuesday night. It contains paste, stale gourd and half a pund canned buffalo meat. It will be eaten raw, raw, raw, raw tonight.s"
On a memo:
"You take a fragment by fragment slack. Deny the overturn and cast. Slay everyone's pets. Lay down some sort of second kick. You take a fragment by fragment defragmentation. A nation is less than two."
Labels: Brillante Mendoza, Cirilo Bautista, Independent Films, Kinatay, Philippine Movies, Sylvia Plath
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