Invisible Waves
Rating: ****
Cast: Kyoji (Asano Tadanobu), Noi (Gang Hye Jung), Wiwat (Toon Hiranyasup), Monk (Eric Tsang)
Genre: Classic Thriller

Watched on 22 Apr 06 with Sis at the newly opened "the Cathay" @ Handy Road.

2 tickets on a Sunday plus phone booking fee cost $20.50

It was $10/ticket plus 50 cents booking fee.
Later we realized the tickets were 50 cents more than normal because the movie was screened in "the Picturehouse" with designer leather seats, free poster of the movie and an extra rule of no food & drinks in the theatre.

The papers rated this movie 5-star! So I decided to give it a try.

If you are expecting gory and bloody movie like SAW, you'd be hugely disappointed. There's hardly a drop of blood (except those unexplained bloodstains found on the aquarium glass in the ferry to Phuket) or scenes of violence in the entire movie. If there were any killings, they were all done very artistically.

In fact, I must say it is a very beautifully shot film albeit the painfully slow pace. Equivalent to Wong Kar Wai's "In the mood for love".

Imagine a killer helping his victim stir his broiling soup with one hand while pointing a gun at the victim's head with his free hand. Every angle and backdrop is carefully considered and composed. As described by the official site, the movie is all about atmosphere, atmosphere, atmospere...

It was disappointing to know later that some scenes had been censored away. Probably to fit into the NC16 rating in Singapore. Of course I must add that watching the male lead was worth every dollar I had spent that rainy Saturday night :)

Synopsis borrowed from Yahoo:

A psychological story of a murderer and how he becomes his own victim trying to
live with himself and resolve his guilt.

... the ono whose husband watched Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at Esplanade today