Sunday, November 12, 2006

Brother of Darkness (1994)


Cool CAT III wtih a good amount of sleaze, violence, and insanity even if it does get mushy with the love story at times. The villain is pretty fucked up. He's ridiculously in and out of jail, rapes his wife, beats his kid, later sells his wife and kid off, treats his parents like shit, drives his mother to attempt suicide, and worst of all hit his adopted kid brother in the crotch which prevents him from ever having an erection in life and leads to a complicated love story with a miserable ending. The story is structured like in Daughter of Darkness and has two actors from that movie (Lily Chung and Anthony Wong). Both movies took place in a courtroom where it's debated whether the defendant was justified in achieving brutal revenge on the villain. And from interrogation in the courtoom, we are given glimpses of flashbacks, mostly sex scenes, the villain being an asshole, and some bloody fights. The funniest flashback was when the guy who couldn't get an erection finds his girlfriend masturbating in the bathtub and gets pissed off cause he knows his penis was not pleasurable enough.

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