AFFF log

Feminist view on a male fantasy
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This is one twisted perverted f#cked up film. I loved it :-) On the surface level this film seems to portray the male (adolescent) fantasy of exploiting a gorgeous woman as a mindless sex slave, but the film in reality offers a commentary on how men perceive women and how they "deal" with that gender relation.

Although the subject matter is larger than life and quite explicit, it never (visually) exceeds certain "taste" boundaries. I think that is largely the reason why the majority of the audience was chuckling or laughing out loud during the film. It never got uncomfortable. You could criticize the makers for latter, but it didn't bother me because that was not the way they chose to tell this story.

Apart from the wicked content, I felt that the film on a technical level was excellent. It was shot on Thomson Viper digital cameras in 1:2.35 aspect ratio, and it just looked gorgeous. The cinematography and framing was superb, the sound design really added to the story and apart from one song the use of music was really well timed and suitable.

Also noteworthy: the hair and make-up of the deadgirl. Especially the eyes and the teeth were far more convincing than anything I've seen this week. Strangely enough a lot of productions seem to ignore those aspects, whereas in this film the teeth were really worn and dirty, and the eyes did not just have basic contact lenses - the white part of the eye balls had a red outline near the socket and some other texture as well.

Rating: 8