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Arrow Films

From acclaimed Indonesian director Edwin (Postcards from the Zoo) and based on the novel by Eka Kurniawan comes Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, winner of the Golden Leopard at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival - a pulpy, energetic throwback to 80s South East Asian action and coming-of-age cinema about a young man who can't get it up.

Ajo Kawir (Marthino Lio) is a fighter who fears nothing, not even death. But his raging urge to fight is driven by a secret - his impotence, resulting from a traumatic childhood memory. When he crosses paths with a tough female fighter named Iteung (Ladya Cheryl), Ajo gets beaten black and blue, but he also falls head over heels in love. Will Ajo's path lead him to a happy life with Iteung, and, eventually, his own peace of mind?

With echoes of early Takashi Miike, Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is a wild and unexpectedly poignant meditation on toxic masculinity and a culture steeped in violence from one of Indonesia's most exciting directorial voices.

Product Features

  • High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
  • Original lossless Indonesian 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio
  • Optional English subtitles
  • Brand new audio Q&A with co-writer/director Edwin
  • Over an hour of behind-the-scenes footage from the film set, organised into 13 episodes
  • The World Behind Vengeance - over 80 minutes of interview featurettes with the cast and crew
  • Video diaries from each day of shooting
  • An hour of readings from the original source novel, featuring multiple cast and crew members
  • Deleted scenes
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Image gallery
  • Reversible sleeve feature two choices of artwork

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A great adaptation of a pretty good book

I was able to see Vengeance for the first time at the Kosmorama film festival in Trondheim, and when I saw the movie on blu-ray I had to buy it and show it to all my friends. The story follows Ajo Kawir, a young man who spends his days being a hot-headed tough guy who drinks beer, gets into fights, and nothing else. When he meets the beautiful and equally tough Iteung he decides to turn his life around so they can be happy together. However, escaping from a life of crime is not as easy as they had wished, and things can only spiral out of control as former lovers, spooky gang bosses and ghosts all compete to see who can make things the most worse. The movie is a truncated but quite easy to follow adaptation of Eka Kurniawan's novel, and I don't think you need to have read it to enjoy the movie immensely. Be warned that there are depictions and descriptions of sexual violence in the movie, including towards a child, in the strangely casual way Kurniawan tends to add to his otherwise delightful books. If you can stomach it or just turn away, this movie is groovy, funny, and a great way to spend an evening!

2023-10-25by Eskil

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