SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Cunninghamolga This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Indyrod Starting to work myself through the "Unearthed Films" I purchased recently, I decided to start with this interesting little take on a cross between "Man Bites Dog" and "Hard Candy". Basically a man picks up a woman at a bar, and they go back to her place. Big mistake. After passing out from a drugged drink, he wakes up finding himself strapped in a dentist chair, with this gorgeous woman ready to do as she pleases to him. The movie concentrates a lot on dialog and judgment regarding philosophical questions about society. Oh, and I might mention torture on her new guinea pig. The story takes a few twists and turns, but in the end, I found it very interesting despite the very low budget, the acting is top notch and the whole idea of the story pretty intriguing. It's nothing special, but a strange little film that "Unearthed" made available to people like me that like this sort of stuff.

golden-8 Boy meets girl is the most brilliantly sick and twisted, exhilarating and outrageous kick in the ass film I've ever seen. A film that questions the exploitative use of violence by cinema, something that makes this films subject matter appear more realistic and important, a provocative way in which to illustrate what the film is REALLY about. It is an indictment of the observer. The audience identifies with the film making inquisitor, fascinated and disturbed by Tevin's sadistic captor, unable to look away. The observer is changed and manipulated by what is observed and the danger is that in observing we become immune to violence and ultimately become part of it.Satire is tough. When it works it makes you think and see differently. When it fails it can give the appearance of celebrating what it attempts to mock. For those who see Boy Meets Girl as simply depraved and exploitive, the satire has failed. It's main arguments are more important now than was when it was made, freedom of speech and filmmakers from state censorship.I saw this when it first came out, at a screening at the NFT on London (just after it's world premiere in competition at the Edinburgh film festival), on a appropriately desolate and grimy London rainy day. It shocked me then and it shocks me still upon second viewing. I've never seen anything else quite like it. Other films have attempted to incite similar discussions on violence but Boy Meets Girl is simply the best of its kind.This movie is a piece of art: shocking and disturbing, while at the same time funny as hell in a raw "should-I-be-laughing-or-should-I-be-ashamed" kind of way.It gives an insight in the very realistically portrayed life of a serial killer with an impressionable charisma.Most people who commented on this film either love it or hate it. The division seems mostly geographical though: most Americans can't seem to understand the tongue-in- cheek humour of this movie. The pivotal point of the film is when the audience begins to look "beyond" the obvious relationship, that of torturer (being obviously evil) and their subject Tevin (a victim). When watching this movie, try to imagine that this *could* be a real movie: documentaries about terrorists, drugdealers, and even mercenaries (the closest thing to an actual serial killer) have been made, and some of them were very close to their subject.It is *not* a "black comedy" in the classical sense of the word; more like a "Clockwork Orange" for the nineties. Where "A Clockwork Orange" bathed in the design of the seventies, this movie bathes in the "larger-than-life" invasiveness of modern-day reality-TV-style television. Anyone who has seen shows like "cops" or "Big Brother" will know what I'm talking about. It asks the big documentary question: in how far does the observed change the observer? It makes a statement, not about violence, but about the observer of violence. The way it is portrayed shows the art of the (very low-budget) crew: it grips your guts without fancy effects or gory portrayal of gore: it shows fear, despair and psychological emptiness, by showing emotions! This should be recommended viewing (and debating) to anyone making films questioning the portrayal and use of violence within films. To say this movie is disturbing would be an understatement. A massive, gigantic understatement! But it is also a display of film-genius.The movie is filmed in mostly in one room, more like a set for theatre as a "fly-on-the-wall" victim in the life of a serial killer. The killer recites writings by the Marquis de Sade, muses on misogyny and racism, homophobia, ponders philosophy, and ... well, kills. Totally without guilt or without a price, her victims becomes her art works.There are scenes when her lunacy is briefly pierced by humanity, she counsels her victim, but her killing has become a habit, a hobby perhaps, she is killing for company. Those who shy from blood and killing - about the most graphic and nasty domestic violence you'll ever see in a film - should shy from this movie. But anyone with an interest in a glimpse at the darkest side of human nature will appreciate this film, not necessarily for its story or its darkness, but for its ability to make us think, and open our eyes to human behaviour we don't like to admit might exist.During the course of the movie you become totally numb to the act of killing (or maiming or torture or rape or any violent crime). It has become commonplace. You just sort of scratch your head and wonder – what next? why now? why him? why her? This mental numbness is made possible by the way it is filmed - as though it were at times a documentary. Not long into the movie you begin to wonder if this is real, or just a movie. I wonder if this is the kind of numbness that soldiers experienced in wars like WWI, entrenched and under constant fire - to where the violence around become the norm ( one of the films many strange chapter/scene headings. In Boy Meets Girl the killer it is clear, has an addiction, but we, as viewers become complacent to it. We have been numbed to where it is no longer disturbing. Makes you scratch your head and wonder: is such detachment from emotion and what's right really possible??? When I told him about this movie, a friend mentioned that "society, as a whole, is already numb to brutal killing and violence." He's right about that. But this movie is so ridiculously brutal and violent it is more a mockery of our society's complacence to violence, not an endorsement. I would love to see this resurrected as a stage play or big budget Hollywood remake with say Nicole Kidman taking it out of Tom Cruise strapped in a chair, now that would be fun to see. Ten out of ten though for a confrontational provocative piece of cinema.

Deadskill A truly funny film.The comedy that I notice has not been mentioned here so far is truly brilliant.The director changing the main character half way through the film is one of the most inventive bits of cinema (or should I say SINema) that I have ever seen.It really is funnier than watching a late night showing of Jim Davidson after being hit by a truck! Its that funny!I laughed and giggled till I threw up my own hip.Why isn't Ray Brady directing Its a Knock Out? We probably will never know.

roger-s Ten out of ten for a well made, well acted piece. It's not Hollywood by a long shot so I'm pretty sure this film will have its detractors, but the film delivers what it says, it's a feel good movie for a teen audience. If it's gangsters and action your after this isn't for you. A very nice change from the derivative pap being churned out by most British film makers. Quirky and funny it made me laugh out loud and constantly surprised me. Compelling ending!