Review of Gogal

Gogal (2008)
1/10
Exhausted from watching this.
19 July 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Im exhausted from watching this movie. It is plain awful.

This movie is shot to mimic old 8mm movies. From the shaky shots, to the grainy texture to the washed out colours. Most of the movie's shots are people walking outside in a bleak industrial setting. The combination of which makes for photography thats hard on the eyes.

The movie is as boring as heck, just the 2 main characters walking, chasing each other and fighting each other. The camera work actually makes the action scenes even harder to watch. Imagine old 8mm film thats moving rapidly.

The story pointless. In fact I would say this movie is retardploitation movie (as opposed to sexploitation, nunsploitation etc). My apologies for the very unpolitically correct term as I cant find a better term. Its shows a mentally retarded girl being exploited and abused by a probably mentally retarded, but at a more capable level, guy. He whores her out, beats her etc. In fact a full 3/4 of the movie is like that.

The final 1/4 of the movie came out of nowhere its like the producers realized they made a film of nothing and needed a shocker ending. It is pretty shocking, bloody and gruesome. But I really don't see how or why it ties into the movie.

This movie reeks of art house pretentiousness. But IMO, you can dress it up as art all you like but a load of manure is still a load of manure.
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