Mr. Rape´s First Date
Director: Nik Box
2013
Horror/Short
Set in the future. The world has become a
different place to live in. Censorship has taken such a leap forward that all entertainment
is now forbidden. Crime rates have dropped and education has increased for 99 %
of the population. However, the remaining 1 % lives like outcasts. One day Mr.
Rape finds an old 14” monitor and immediately starts to hear voices from it,
telling him what to do.
Before
we get into the political aspects of this, speaking of the censorship going too
far, I’d like to ask you a question. How do you keep your audience interested during
a somewhat dull introduction to the future world? You can just state the facts
and hope that the audience won’t become bored. The answer is of course by
showing a woman’s tits and some pubic hair alternating from hip to hip. If you
can alternate the grainy black and white imagery into negative colors once in a
while to you make sure your audience is interested.
I figure
there’s a political statement to be said here. Stay the fuck away from
censoring everything; let the people decide for themselves what’s good or bad
for them. Less government involvement and more individual thinking is the way
it should be. Is the TV really to blame for all the things that has gone bad to
the world? Nik Box seems to make a
point of this! Maybe the education rates have gone up in the future where the
flick is set but it seems to be a damn boring world. Maybe the boredom creates the
violence rather than the old saying – violence creates violence. It’s an
attractive idea nevertheless.
The film
is made in grainy black and white and it has a silent movie feel to it. I don’t
think it’s some kind of hommage to the old movies but it looks very good. I really
like the voyeuristic feel to some of the scenes. At first when Mr. Rape sneaks
around it’s obvious but even later we get the feeling that we – the audience,
are the true voyeurs!
There is
sex and there is violence in the flick, it’s even quite disturbing. But it’s
never a pornographic film. Sure, we get to see some tits but that’s all. We get
to figure the rest out for ourselves. I really like the music choice for the
rape scenes. I realize that it’s not for everyone with loud punk rock music put
it gets your attention and it certainly makes you wake up when something
happens.
I think
this is an interesting little piece, and I think there is something to be told.
Some of the scenes are a complete mystery to me as far as metaphors goes, some
are spot on. I have no idea if my interpretation of this is intended but I hope
so, it brings some much more to the movie that just a straight forward shocking
movie. Oh! And yes, there is a revenge involved!
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