Sunday, February 01, 2015 4:07:05 PM
http://thecultcorner.com/recencies/gentle
"A gentle creature" as Thien calls his beautiful but severely depressed woman Linh. A scene later she jumps from the roof of their house. Based on the short story A Gentle Creature by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Le Van Kiet tells the grim story of a Vietnamese wedding in a downward spiral. Thus he tries to put the same kind of socio-economic problems in Vietnam exposed, as Dostoyevsky once did his work in Russia. In the case of GENTLE Kiet shows again where the Beatles long ago sang about: love is not for sale.
Thien however seeks to buy the love Linh. She often comes along in his pawnshop to sell the jewelry from her parents. He feels something for her and goes to investigate. As he arrives at the house of her aunt, where she leads a blissful poverty and ungrateful life. He gives her a way out: he offers her food, money and welfare. Contrast, however, the marriage.
GENTLE seems a nice social drama to be where men and women from different backgrounds learn to live with each other. If however Thien Linh and Mismatched GENTLE is a lot less gentle. Indeed, it is an extremely painful film in which two people fully live alongside each other with drastic consequences. This allows for much abrasion. Sometimes that's a bit out of place. If Thien with a gun in a church is to keep his wife in question puts GENTLE example too high. Yet Kiet made an interesting Vietnamese drama that the short story by Dostoyevsky certainly lives up to.
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