Saturday, June 18, 2022

Pride Month Movie - Day Eighteen: Bound

Bound (1996)

Written and directed by Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski

Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, John P. Henry, Christopher Meloni and Richard C. Sarafian

This movie was in the queer movie lexicon ever since it premiered. My thinking was that it was going to be a movie with S&M vibes. Nope. It was not.

Corky (Gershon), an ex-con fresh out of jail gets a job working as plumber in an apartment. She meets Violet (Tilly), who happens to be the girlfriend of a gangster, Caesar (Pantoliano). They begin to have an affair where Violet wants out of her relationship, and enlists Corky in a plan to steal laundered money from Caesar.

I was back and forth with this movie. The relationship between Corky and Violet was good. There are some things that I didn't like about the movie. 

The Wachowskis love weird camera angles and such. It works for The Matrix and its subsequent sequels, but it doesn't work here. Seeing the barrel of a gun or following a telephone wires is not appealing to see. The thin plot is very transparent. You knew what was going to happen. The tension was not there in order for me to be invested in it.

Rating: 5/10

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