![]() If Sanchez is trying to make a comment on society and morality, the audience has to have patience to connect the dots.īut the jungle isn’t all serious, portentous or pornographic. Lifted from sexploitation films, these voyeuristic scenes have a jarring effect seen side-by-side with shots of a half-naked native tribe who mysteriously flit through the film. Though again he seems a willing pupil more than an innocent victim, the long-held shots of his naked body with an erection in progress are designed to make the viewer uncomfortable. Needless to say, their young local guide ( Aldrin Zapitan) is not excluded from their sexy game-playing. Whether this counts as manipulative exploitation or not is a judgment call. What’s most disturbing is the blond man’s continuous taunting of his Filipino girlfriend, pushing her to go farther into animal lust. Next, two young hikers sporting full body tattoos ( Martin Riffer and Mae Bastes) indulge in frequent sex stops as they tramp through the jungle with their guide. When he refuses, she steals his new-born infant and runs hysterically into the jungle. The first character to appear – though the practically black-on-black cinematography barely reveals her presence - is a naked middle-aged woman ( Gloria Morales) begging for sex from her brother-in-law. ![]() ![]() Very much a festival taste, it has difficult distribution prospects.Īs in his poetic ode to sewer-dwelling kids, Imburnal, writer/director Sanchez has a socially motivated agenda underlying his uninhibited narrative, but one so veiled it is hard to pinpoint. On top of all this, Sanchez pushes hard on the technical side to confuse and disorient, demanding the viewer “get lost” in a brutish Picnic at Hanging Rock. In many ways the film recalls the mischievous kind of things Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is often up to, including disconnected narrative, stories that never come together or have any rational explanation, ghosts, explicit sex, full frontal nudity and X-rated dialogue. The jungle was never so carnal as in Filipino indie filmmaker Sherad Anthony Sanchez’s Jungle Love, an impressionistic, often hallucinatory experiment which alternately fascinates and repels.
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