Perhaps the most controversial of all the short films, Pain features a sado-masochistic young man as the protagonist, and a faceless police man. The protagonist is a man looking for a job, without much success, and it seemed like he didn't even bother to try as he crosses out recruitment ads without much thought.
He leads a vagrant lifestyle, patronizing a provision shop to get his daily supply of Marlboro, preserved plums and comic books. He idles his time away, and looks for the next big high by inflicting pain on his own body, starting from needles through fingertips, to the extinguishing of lit cigarettes on his skin, and to the use of razor blades to mutilate his body.
However, with addiction, it's never enough, and the highlight consists of various sick tortures on his kidnapped victim, from having a chisel driven into the foot, the sawing off of a limb, the removal of an eyeball, and culminating to a beheading.
It's an extremely dark film with minimal dialogue and a twist ending, backed by an edgy soundtrack. Though the SM parts looked very realistic, I thought the actual grizzly find of a dismembered human body in Singapore on the same day marred my enjoyment of this short film. A little too close for comfort somehow.
He leads a vagrant lifestyle, patronizing a provision shop to get his daily supply of Marlboro, preserved plums and comic books. He idles his time away, and looks for the next big high by inflicting pain on his own body, starting from needles through fingertips, to the extinguishing of lit cigarettes on his skin, and to the use of razor blades to mutilate his body.
However, with addiction, it's never enough, and the highlight consists of various sick tortures on his kidnapped victim, from having a chisel driven into the foot, the sawing off of a limb, the removal of an eyeball, and culminating to a beheading.
It's an extremely dark film with minimal dialogue and a twist ending, backed by an edgy soundtrack. Though the SM parts looked very realistic, I thought the actual grizzly find of a dismembered human body in Singapore on the same day marred my enjoyment of this short film. A little too close for comfort somehow.