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Only God Forgives is a 2013 action film written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and stars Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vithaya Pansringarm. It was shot on location in Bangkok, Thailand, and as with the director's earlier film Drive it was also dedicated to Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky.
May 22, 2013 · Only God Forgives: Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. With Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Gordon Brown. Julian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death.
- (119K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- 2013-05-22
Jul 19, 2013 · The film was shot in Bangkok, which the cinematographer Larry Smith has lit up like the inside of a Dutch whorehouse. The Thai capital's look is meant to evoke sleaze and corruption, yet it comes across, like the film itself, as affected and artificial.
Jul 19, 2013 · In Thailand, a drug trafficker's (Ryan Gosling) icy mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) sends him on a mission to avenge his older brother, who was killed for beating an underage prostitute to death.
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- Nicolas Winding Refn
- R
- Ryan Gosling
In its description, Only God Forgives could be interpreted as a fairly straightforward crime film, one with shootouts, beatings, murder, and justice. But the ways in which Refn uses tropes for his visuals while digging into deep quagmires of the unconscious and darkness creates a truly hallucinogenic, bizarre experience, one marred by terrible ...
Jul 18, 2013 · Only God Forgives uncompromisingly demands the viewer to patiently allow themselves to be slowly hypnotised into the vividly textured and visually alluring underworld of Bangkok that dwells only in the darkness and depravity of its setting. Audiences need to be made aware that this is not Drive.
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Jul 19, 2013 · Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.
