Subconscious Cruelty
Subconscious Cruelty
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Subconscious Cruelty

Subconscious Cruelty

1999
Drama, Crime
1h 32m
Reality... A city, grey, dull, maybe abandoned and then a dead dove wrapped in plastic. What is reality and what is cinema ? A naked woman lying on a table. A hand grabs a scalpel and cuts through her groin. A brother is obsessed with his sister, who's going to give birth... (cinetrange.com)

Subconscious Cruelty

1999
Drama, Crime
1h 32m
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Rated 15 Aug 2008
60
24th
A technically very well done arthouse exploitationfilm. The violence is extremly brutal and at times the visuals are mesmerizing but even in 1999 the religious subjects seem outdated and uniteresting for someone without a religious backround. Still the monologs surrounding the subject are at times clever and entertaining. The least violent part, the outdoors part, is the one that captured my adoration the most.
Rated 15 Nov 2020
45
4th
Top badass moment? At the start - I bet a trip to the optician with that woman is fun. This is a film (well four shorts sort of stuck together) with no plot that’s just been designed to shock people; it reminded me of Steve Jones swearing on the Today programme. The special effects were pretty good and you have to admire the actors’ willingness, but as entertainment? If you really want to be horrified just watch any news broadcast, as that's real. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Rated 06 Apr 2013
5
2nd
Far, far less radical, inventive and artistic than it thinks it is. The film will attack you with a barrage of disgusting images, supposedly linked together by some deep meaning or other, but unless you're very easily impressed by the profundity of gory sexual torture, onanism and blasphemy, your disgust is unlikely to save you from your boredom.
Rated 07 Nov 2011
76
76th
In the extreme film genre, it's very rare to find a film as well-written and thought provoking as "Subconscious Cruelty" and one that doesn't exist purely to shock. Packed with symbolism and imagery, and extreme sadistic violence (featuring a scene that makes "that scene" in Antichrist look incredibly tame), the film breaks essentially all the taboos in the genre. If you don't do thinking, it's worth a watch to see Jesus get anally jousted by a tree branch.
Rated 04 Oct 2011
80
10th
Extremely unpleasant. A great metaphor on the subconscious cruelty of life...
Rated 28 Mar 2010
100
97th
The first offensive movies that really left me speechless..so beyond weird..its art torture....what a great movie
Rated 12 Sep 2008
90
79th
an exploitation film at it's best.

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