In this worthy adaptation of the Japanese film "Rashomon," a young monk is left to determine the truth behind three competing perspectives after a bandit's disturbing murder trial. A teacher and his student go on a trip to a magical island where there is urban life and tourist attractions as well as a palace and temples.
- Unsichtbarer Schmerz: Fibro... was? (German Edition);
- Pleasure Factory.
- Disastrous Dates & Dream Boys.
- Pleasure Factory (Kuaile Gongchang) | Review.
- Employee Engagement 2.0: How to Motivate Your Team for High Performance (A Real-World Guide for Busy Managers).
- Movies in Theaters.
- Fire: A Brief History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books).
Moreover, a haunting past still gnaws, spreads, The lives of pleasure seekers and pleasure providers intertwine one night in Singapore's red light district. According to Pleasure Factory, Geylang was once an area where factories process coconuts, but now have given way to brothels providing pleasure, with pimps eager to hawk their latest acquisitions to anyone loitering a little while longer. Perhaps it's like Vegas, where what happens in Geylang stays in Geylang, that the characters here all have a propensity of not speaking. I would have no issues on this if the visuals, which paint a kaleidoscope of beautiful imagery showcasing the lure of the bright lights and the seedier side of what dwells amongst the shadows, can maintain a movie on its own before starting to look like Discovery Channel, but too often the narrative found itself caught up in the moment with its characters, in obvious short stories forced together through casual circumstances.
See a Problem?
The three stories here were actually like snapshots, everything given on the surface, and without much depth. The first story is the perennial army boy seeking to pop his cherry, and what better way to do so than with someone of experience. Loo Zihan who co-directed and was one of the leads in Solos stars as the Jonathan the army boy who while at first seemed shy and unwilling, on the goading of a friend Kiat Katashi Chen , managed to decide on the services of a buxom girl from China, Xue Er.
I thought this story was the best amongst the three, in that it had clear direction in what it wanted to get at, interjected with good humour.
Pleasure Factory : Horrors of the Singapore Flesh Trade
It also painted the motivations of all the characters clearly, highlighting the play acting and masks that people wear, whether we really know the deep dark secret desires that others have in mind, and dalliances on love, lust, and of course, the virgin experience. Unfortnately, that cannot be said of the story involving the veterans Ananda Everingham and Yang Kuei-Mei, who's a regular in Tsai Mi ng-liang movies, that Pleasure Factory tries hard to emulate its minimalistic and reliance on visual language, with dismal results.
People hardly talk here, and the visuals relied a fair bit on the unsteadicam as it weaves about and around the corridors of a budget hotel. While Yang's Linda and Isabella Chan's teenage girl has a mother-daughter love-hate relationship suggested, it was Ananda's Chris that proved to be the story arc's undoing, given that his character had no clear motivation at all. He just appears, hesitates, feels sorry, and that's it, finding it hard to communicate to the duo given that he speaks only English.
- theranchhands.com: Pleasure Factory eBook: Kaiwen Leong: Kindle Store.
- LA SOLEDAD.
- The Myth of the American Superhero.
- Barbarossa (German Edition)!
- The Hobo?
- H.E.R.O. - Paragon.
- Challenging the Limits of the Human Life Span: - Can We Live Longer Than 120 Years - New Guidelines.
- Pleasure Factory () - IMDb?
And it's not the characters alone that have unclear objectives and motivations. The movie too was disjointed in itself, having succumbed to schizophrenic moments where it inserted two documentary styled interview footage into the narrative structure, thus having those sticking out like a sore thumb.
While much of the narrative is fictional in nature, I thought that it may have felt a need to have a mockumentary? I thought this was a more of a conventional treatment of Herman Yau's Whispers and Moans in its tit-for-tat moment, but it does open one's eyes to having to resort to innovative methods to solicit, and cements the term "Special" being us ed in the trade. In circumstances where you tell the pimp your fantasies and get them fulfilled somewhat, Pleasure Factory did not manage to do just that.
You have a basic idea what you want to get at. But this is Geylang after all. Fans will undoubtedly have no hesitation to see how their playground gets depicted in a feature length film, while those curious enough or have never stepped foot into its territory, would probably prefer to see it through a filmmaker's lens first. Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.
Full Cast and Crew. Unrated 1h 28min Drama 25 October Singapore. IMDb's Guide to Streaming. According to the film's production notes, Pleasure Factory is the first feature film to be shot entirely on actual locations in Geylang , the red-light district of Singapore. With Pleasure Factory , I've tried to strip bare the shields that prevent characters in the film from experiencing true pleasure.
I'd like the film to have a vivid sense of realism and honesty.
Product details
I'd like it to confront a world that's at once seedy and beautiful, dark and bright, sad and humorous, cold and warm, naked and all wrapped up. If pleasure can be mass-produced, what would be left on the assembly line when the machines stop?
The film is the second feature film for director Ekachai, a Singapore-based theatre director who had previously directed the Thai biographical drama film, Beautiful Boxer. Other actors were newcomers, found through street casting in Geylang and around Singapore. It was acclaimed by European critics who attended the premiere screening.
Rebhan of Germany's arts and culture Channel Arte described the film as a "convincing portrait of a never-before-seen red-light district" and said "what makes this movie so special are the moments when people in the 'factory' step out of their usual rhythms - not functioning the way they should, unsure of their own actions and emotions.
Leonardo Lardieri of Italy's Sentieri Selvaggi called the film "a pleasurable surprise" and said it was able to "capture the fragility, the sense of abandonment and the pulsation of incessant desire - in a chain of beginnings and ends that continue to reincarnate itself night after night. The approach of the film was described by other critics as "characterized by a unique tenderness.
Pleasure Factory (Kuaile Gongchang) | Review - theranchhands.com
French website Monsieur Cinema said "visually, the film is an enchantment — a contemplative waltz powered by the lights. It was poorly received by critic Russell Edwards of the film industry journal Variety , who called the digital-video film "shoddy" and said "neither sexual nor audience satisfaction is guaranteed. However, Christopher Chia, chief executive of Singapore's Media Development Authority , indicated in an interview that the film would be welcome, signaling that Singapore is loosening up on artistic expressions of sexuality.
The director Ekachai expressed optimism that his film would be shown in Singapore cinemas , saying "I think Singapore has been making conscious efforts to be less rigid. The country has a proper film classification system in place. It's also aspiring to have the creative freedom that comes with being a first-world country. The film had a limited release in Thailand cinemas on October 18, , and released in Singapore on October