![]() ![]() Which is most likely because there is a stream of dark humour running through it. It's strange because whilst there is tension and atmosphere it doesn't feel overly tense. But they also give it a touch of a theatrical who dunnit as various people enter the scene of a crime and you are made to wait to see if they will discover the gruesome clues to a murder or in fact they will also become victims. They give it a feel of film noir with their stunning stylizations, use of black and white and creative camera angles. But the Wachowski's in their first directional outing have fun with it. Sarafian) and in doing so set Caesar up for the fall but their plans don't work when Caesar reacts differently to how they expected.Īt its heart "Bound" is quite a traditional crime thriller that involves gangsters, murder and missing money, none of which is in itself that amazing. Together they decided to steal $2,000,000 which Caesar is holding for mafia boss Gino (Richard C. Having been hired to renovate an apartment, lesbian ex-con Corky ( Gina Gershon - Showgirls) meets her neighbour's gangster Caesar ( Joe Pantoliano - Bad Boys) and his girlfriend Violet ( Jennifer Tilly - Made in America) and is seduced by Violet's flirtatious ways. It has to be said a rather eclectic range of elements but for me it combines them quite brilliantly delivering an entertaining, comical, erotic thriller heavy on the stylization and fun. ![]() And of course "Bound" is also notorious for the lesbian sex scenes between a naked Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly. On one hand it is a modern attempt at film noir with some lovely stylization, the next it's almost a comical crime caper as it delivers sly humour in a dramatic situation, then it's also quite brutal with stylistic shootings and mob action plus it is also thrilling combining all these elements into a guessing game of who will bite the dust or not. "Bound" is either a movie you will like or hate because it's a slightly strange, if at times surreal blend of various movie elements. This is a little-known gem that is certainly worth spending the approximately 100 minutes of your precious time and it will leave you wondering why it is so hard to find similar productions in the contemporary era.Gershon and Tilly are Spellbinding in Bound The movie, apart from its references to classic Film-Noir, brought to my mind the early Joel&Ethan Coen pictures and plotwise it will somehow remind you of the superb ''Shallow Grave'' by Danny Boyle. The main theme of ''Bound'' is trust between humans and the risks that people are taking, based on the trust to a closely related person. Pantoliano's character) on the verge of a complete breakdown as he finds himself owing to his own mob family a sum of 2.000.000 dollars. But, as always, reality doesn't follow the plan and things spiral out of control with a high body count and Caesar (J. Tilly's character, acted with a mischievous- almost manipulative- sexiness and cynical determination, hatches a plan to rob her husband of mob money, with the guidance and support from her new lover. ''Bound'' is an absorbing crime/mystery with dashes of Hitchcockian suspense, having a solid plotline and great cast such as Joe Pantoliano and Jennifer Tilly who both deliver tremendous performances in their roles of a husband and wife, the former being a made mafioso and the latter a typical 'Damsel in Distress' who searches for a safe exit from the Mob's violent characters and proceedings, while becoming infatuated with her new neighbor (Gina Gershon's character). It is hard to accept the fact that I haven't ever heard of this great Neo-Noir, written and directed by the acclaimed Wachowski Brothers (Lana&Lilly) in the early stages of their career which reached its peak with ''The Matrix'' (1999).
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