Help Me Eros
by Lee Kang-Sheng
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Actor: Dennis Nieh, Ivy Yi, Jane Liao, Lee Kang-ShengDirector: Lee Kang-Sheng
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Cantonese (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Strand Releasing
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Summary: 5 Stars
"Help Me Eros" ("Bang bang wo ai shen") is a sensual, not a sexual movie. Exquisitely filmed, there is never a scene of naked flesh that is not adorned with a pattern cast shadows, never a cafe scene that is not a perfectly planned and posed, rich in color and design. Director Lee Kang-Sheng knows how to paint a picture with his camera, and he doesn't waste an inch of film without packing it full of visual pleasure.
Story. Oh yes, there is a story. Ah Jie (again the director, Lee Kang-Sheng, who also stars in the film) is a down on his luck business man who has lost everything in the stock market and now is reduced to selling his household goods in order to maintain his lifestyle, which includes lots and lots of pot. Despondent, he calls a suicide hotline and speaks to Chyi, a girl with a beautiful voice who lures him back from the edge, but refuses to meet him. He then meets a Betle Nut girl named Shin, whose provides the visual reference needed for his fantasies of Chyi, and he pursues her. From there things begin to spiral downwards, as Ah Jie becomes lost in a sensual world of fantasy and pleasure, seeking Chyi but dragging Shin into a sensual world where pot is exchanged for sex from a variety of prostitutes, and the internet provides the faceless vehicle for communication.
In a way, this is a pretentious art flick. Imagine an acrobatic threesome carried out to the background music of Buddhist chanting. But somehow the ennui works, mainly through the director's skillful eye and his ability to sell all of these scenes with a straight face. As another nod to the director's talent, for all of its gymnastic sex scenes "Help Me Eros" is a film almost entirely without nudity, as he manages to skirt the censors and create with pure mood what he cannot create with expliciticity. The girls are pretty, and wear next to nothing, but there is definitely a boundry of what you get to see, and the tease makes you want to see it all the more.
Much of this film is pure Taiwan, including the Betle Nut girls who attract customers by wearing skimpy clothing and yet selling nothing more than nuts and an occasional glimpse. There is a dry humor here as well, the kind found in a city lacking nationality and identity, where people seek their pleasures where they may, and live what life they have to live.
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