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The Silver Shoe.....
Watched this film TOTALLY because Viggo was in it. He's a tremendous actour....when he bothers to reads the script. Of course here, he has no speaking lines. Should have been a give-away. <
>Several friends of mine and I suffered this absolutely bizarre film together. We now have a club going. Whenever we see anything in a film now that seems disconnected from the storyline, or flat out makes no sense, we look at each other and say, "Ah!The silver shoe." This refers to the almost completely unexplained appearance of a oversized silver lame shoe, casually floating down a stream. Brandon Frasier's expression at that moment- complete and utter confusion- is perhaps the best single description of the entire film. That's how it is likely to make the watcher feel. <
>There is nothing deep here. Someone's trying to convince the watcher that because it is arcane, the film has meaning. It does not. And it brooks no apologies for it either. Don't waste your time, unless you just have too much on your hands. (I have to agree completely with Daemonic above- it's just bad.)

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savage beauty
The other reviews offer fair warning. This is a tough film and not for everyone. For some viewers this will be a very good film. For others a waste of time. For me, well worth while. <
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>Wild and sometimes incomprehensible beauty runs through the photography, scenery, characters, and story. The beautiful girl has a very dangerous innocent sexuality that can torture men. Fraiser's naive innocence about his own primal passions and "normal people" and indeed his own consciousness is utterly tragic and frightening. His pain is both sympthetically touching and disturbingly distancing. The scenery is wonderful, but keeps reminding us of remoteness and isolation. There is lots of beauty in paradox, or contradictions. <
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>(Interesting touch that he stutters awkwardly in his new world with the people who have rescued him, but does not stutter in his own internal conversation with his dead parents.)

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A miss for Philip Ridley
I am a big fan of reflecting skin. So I thought I'd give darkly noon a chance. What a piece of crap. Even though it is so cheap, and you have'nt seen it, don't buy it. If you have to see it because of reflecting skin, or because a fan of Philip Ridley, rent it. Even though it might be the same price, you have the comfort of knowing you dont own it. Cause if you did, you would probably end up throwing it a cross the room like I did. Why, as a fan of Cult, Surreal, Phycilogical thrillers; this one just did not make it for me. To much made for TV quality, with a late night erotic Skinamax feel to it. Maybe it was the production and the terible action ending. What ever it was, it was a waist of time. The floating shoe did not bother me, nor did Brendan Fraser (because I normally dont like him), but he actually was not to bad in it. The story it self was not bad. I guess it was the delivery. With reflecting skin being such a favorite of mine, I hope that Philip Ridley can come back with a good Cult movie to redeem his self.