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I watched Defenceless a few days ago and have a report. . . worth a rental, definitely. As a "movie" movie, it's pretty good, a B-, and the recommendation is mostly because it's such a unique, ambitious little film. As a Gimp movie, there's only about five minutes of "good stuff," but holy GOD does it go all the way! We're talking gang rapes, snuff films, and crotch stabbings here folks! Rent this movie and add two real winners to any comp tapes of mainstream chicks in peril scenes you're building. It's more than worth the three bucks. A++ material here. The movie is kind of a weirdo allegory that plays around with archetypical gender stuff. It's very unrealistic and very strange. Know that in advance. . . you're not watching a straightforward exploitation movie here. The movie is silent (!), and the only words in the film appear on a text message and on a contract. The plot concerns a businesswoman who is part of a group planning to build a resort on a Beach. The group of guys who are the other partners sign the contract. She thinks that destroying the natural landscape would be wrong so she refuses. Their response is to kill her husband. (I told you this wasn't realistic.) She then gets herself a girlfriend who comforts her after her loss. The girlfriend becomes the star of a snuff film featuring a large knife being waved in her crotch, rape, and a fatal beating. Our heroine is still undeterred. So SHE gets gang raped and stabbed in the vagina! They toss her in the ocean, but she is reborn as some kind of avenging nature spirit. Castrations and beatings ensue. Then she sails out into the ocean to rejoin nature. The end. Oh, I forgot the part where the bad guys rape and kill a little girl (offscreen). Or the part when the heroine masturbates with a razor. YIKES! Anyway, the whole thing is a artsy meditation on gender theory. Women = nature, and men must sadistically subdue and tarnish nature to prove themselves. But fucking around with mother earth isn't really a good idea. It's a SLOOWWWW movie with lots of shots the heroine walking on a beach, but then there are these super-duper extreme sex and violence scenes. It's like I Spit On Your Grave ate an Ingmar Bergman film. I liked it. If you just want to see the gimptitude without the experimentation, rent it and fastforward till you see the heroine being led around by a series of text messages, then press play. The object of her hunt is the snuff film. It's short, but it works.
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