The Little Death (2015)

Disappointment for a huge fan!

Crappy film

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Boring and inconclusive. Not impressed at all... Hdjdhdhdhdjdjjdjdjfjdjwooqisbdbxjeowojwjwowodbcd

The Little Death (2014)A quirky, funny indy film about young people trying to stay in love through sex. It involves a series of different couples who each try to keep their love lives alive in different ways—and with most of them backfiring. While never quire hilarious, it is consistently witty and surprising. Yes, a dark comedy of sorts, but very bright and light, too.The lynchpin is worth seeing the movie alone. That is, a deaf man calls a sex line through an online interpreter, who can read his hand signals and repeat them to the sex call provider. The layering, the surprising wit and double entendres, the wonderful acting both restrained and comic, it's all nothing short of brilliant. Textbook brilliant. See it, at the end.There is eventually an interweaving of stories that might seem forced, but really this is about the individual story lines that rotate back and forth, in parallel. In all a beautifully rendered look at young lives in Australia, ordinary people shown to be more than just average. Like all of us.

Shot as a series of vignettes, the film is quite uneven. It is very loosely tied together by a man canvassing the neighborhood to inform people that he's a registered sex offender, using a unique and amusing device to distract them from his message -- by gifting nostalgic cookies that evoke happy childhood memories, that are long- discontinued because they were racist (an American equivalent would be "little black Sambo" cookies, if such had existed). This is the first film for the writer / director, and it seems quite obvious that he took a psychology class on Deviant Sexual Behavior, utterly didn't understand the material, formed the conclusion that anyone with out-of-norm sexual interests is doomed, and decided to write a comedy about the subject. Four-fifths of it doesn't work, (unless you like your comedy about people whose lives and relationships are falling apart due to lack of communication) and the end appears to have been desperately cobbled together because he ran out of inspiration.Apparently, there's no Internet in modern Australia, so no one can use it to find out anything about exploring non-standard sexuality, nor is there any open and honest communication between long-standing couples, such that they could discuss their desires in a productive way. Therefore, the "comedic" elements of the film consist of increasingly desperate spouses discovering an interest that excites them, then spiraling out of control and destroying their relationships while trying to either trick their significant other into satisfying their interest, or complying with that interest so outlandishly that it meets with disaster. Or both. The saving grace of the film (and the only reason I didn't rate it a "3", is the beautiful and luminous 5th vignette about the public service sign-language-interpretation-for-the-deaf operator who inadvertently gets stuck interpreting a call to a phone sex line by a deaf person. Because the writer didn't understand the paraphilia of making obscene phone calls, he wasn't able to make "light" of it, and instead the skit becomes about two people making an hauntingly- intense, if brief, connection while coping with an awkward situation. If the entire movie had been like this one skit, it would effortlessly have been a "10".

I'm not here to write a novel so I'll get to the point. There were too many characters, and although there was some link between them there was no real connection. The end left me typically flabbergasted as with many Australian films where a late comer ends up in love with a man in a span of ten minutes. It ends with two people dead. I repeat because I need 10 lines. I'm not here to write a novel so I'll get to the point. There were too many characters, and although there was some link between them there was no real connection. The end left me typically flabbergasted as with many Australian films where a late comer ends up in love with a man in a span of ten minutes. It ends with two people dead.