一夜情深

　　The first feminist vegan horror film, The Herd has been rejected by some film festivals for being too horrific or political. A number of kidnapped women are kept imprisoned in a squalid medical facility condemned to a life of enforced servitude at the whims of their captors, without any hope of rescue or escape.

　　Following her mother’s death, manga artist Soriya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant family and using the visit as inspiration for her work. All goes well initially. Renting an apartment in Metta, a rundown Khmer Rouge-era housing complex, her visit to her maternal relatives finds her welcomed with open arms. But Soriya’s waking hours in the apartment and its surroundings are punctuated by terrifying, bloody visions, almost as though she were a conduit for horrors of the past wanting to seep into the present.　　Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea’s blood-chilling psychological horror explores a personal and political past through the present, transforming a characterful space into an insidious environment. Surrounded by modern high-rises, this decrepit structure, with its brutalist architecture and peeling surfaces, is a relic from a dark period in history whose painful memories it has absorbed. In tracing Soriya’s ominous journey back to her roots, Tenement hints at a necessary reckoning with Cambodia’s political past without overplaying its historical dimension. It’s an impressive work from a woefully underrepresented national cinema.

　　只是一場意外，卻又超乎意外。駕車撞死一條狗，男子與妻女來到陌生車房。憑其義肢走動時的聲響，車房工認出司機或是當年施酷刑的獄吏。仇人送上門，雪恨更待何時。然而，獄中受折磨時雙眼被蒙，嫌疑犯是行刑者確實無誤？從早到晚奔波一輪，找來幾個獄友確認俘虜身份，痛苦回憶涌上心頭。在無 垠沙漠等待把他活埋私了，有若在人性荒原等待果陀，替天行道又是否問心無愧？以懸疑驚栗布局，暗黑寫實的人物故事來自巴納希獄中親見親聞，將苛政、濫權、以暴易暴一一置于道德倫理的天秤上，丈量人性輕重；悲憤中不失幽默，連消帶打貪污賄賂之風。一面金棕櫚獎，絕非意外。

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