Adoration

I once heard somewhere this film was based on a true story.Very reassuring!

Olivier Smolders, a moviemaker from Liège, Belgium, made this black andwhite short film. I bought a videotape with everyone of his "spiritualexercises". I just LOVE this kind of bizarre short films! "Adoration"seemsvery strange in his form (totally soundless, except when the Japanese guyrecords his girlfriend’s voice reading a novel’s short passage). But youleave this film with a profound ambivalent feeling, wondering if you’veattended to a wonderful love act or a piece of despair’sdarkness.

I recommend this one to short films aficionados and to weird, undergroundorgore movie fans.

Alas, "Adoration" is probably a bit difficult to find elsewhere than inBelgium.

2) I can hardly regard the entire story as a kind of art,especially when ilearn it bases on a true story.The man who did this is disgusting,forhis behaviors reveals the darkest impulse of human being,as thedirector introduced in the Cinema of Death DVD.

I absolutely hate the man's deed,but I have to say I adore the way thedirector illustrates it.He adds nothing emotional to the film,justtells the whole story out in detail,rationally and neatly.He does thefilm in a documentary way,but attention plz,it's actually not adocumentary.All the horrific scenes are performed by actors.

After it,i hesitate at the question to whom i could recommend thisfilm.If you will never be upset about the extreme dark side of humanmind and are always eager to appreciate the incomprehensible crazedobsession of love,OK,then enjoy the film(but seemingly the directorsaid the murderer is not really in love with the victim,or he willnever kill her.maybe he did it not out of love,but out of selfishness).

I think the director made it is not to say "right" or "wrong" to theman's mad behaviors,he just wanna record the affair in his way,thentells us about it,and so everyone of us can make a judgment all byourselves.so that's why he did it in an all documental way.

3) Adoration (1987)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Bizarre Belgian film about a Japanese man who invites the woman of hisdreams over to his apartment for dinner but he then decides to eat her.This film works brilliantly on a technical level but the overall moviedoesn't work as well. The film is in B&W and plays out mostly silentwith only the reel being able to be heard but once the cannibalismstarts we then hear the dead girl saying a poem while we watch whathappens to her. The film is brilliantly made and directed and thespecial effects are wonderfully done. We see the woman get her bodyparts cut off and I'm still wondering how they were able to pull thisoff. From Cult Epics Cinema of Death collection.