ONLY GOD FORGIVES
The
Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn bromance continues unabated by the DRIVE Oscar
snubs, they crack on with their next ultra dark thriller ONLY GOD
FORGIVES.
Here’s
a quick breakdown to wet your appetite Julian (Ryan Gosling) runs a Thai boxing
club in Bangkok, where he escaped to ten years earlier after killing a cop. The
club is a front a very organised drug operation, even though he has the respect
of the underworld he feels empty a shell of the man he once was.
So
when his brother murders a prostitute and a retired cop Chang (also known as
the Angel of Vengeance) exacts his own kind of vengeance by allowing the father
of the dead prostitute to kill her killer after which he then restores order by chopping
off the fathers’ hand. So when Julian’s mother Jenna (Kristin Scott Thomas) the
matriarchal figure of the criminal dynasty orders him to find his brothers
killer his obsessions turn into soul searching and the search for spiritual
release so Julian challenges Chang to a boxing match which Chang goes onto win.
And there sets the stage for a brutal trail of vengeance by a furious mother.
Will Julian find redemption or will mummy get revenge? Remember there are
no happy endings in a neo-noir thriller just closure some times.
Anticipation
rating: off the scale.
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