Very best movie i ever watch

Sorry, this movie sucks

Disapointment

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

This movie is scary, sexy, and sorrowful. Just lovely. I was SO sad to find that this was a novel and I hadn't read it first. I will say that this movie is not for everyone. I will also say that it is a work of art. It portrays perfectly that passion, love, and obsession one may feel for someone special literally teeters on the line of insanity. Richardson was classy, closed, and one could feel her entrapment and desire to burst free. Csokas is brooding, feral, and one can tell that despite his unpredictable, dangerous nature, he is capable of -if not, requiring- love and tenderness. While entranced by him, the audience just barely takes register of the brilliantly cunning and manipulative McKellen. He was the true master puppeteer of the story, and all amongst him were tiny marionette dolls to view for entertainment, study psychologically, and eventually destroy what was, sadly, doomed to begin with. Lust is a driving theme in the movie, and that may be off-putting for some, but that is only part of the ride, and I feel that the plot is also very much about the lengths people will go to for love, or at the very least, ridding themselves of loneliness. This may well be one of my new favorites.

In the 50's, the psychiatrist Max Raphael (Hugh Bonneville) is hired to work as superintendent of an asylum in the outskirts of London, and he moves with his wife Stella Raphael (Natasha Richardson) and their son Charlie (Gus Lewis). Stella has a passionless marriage and is ignored by Max; her boredom changes when her son befriends the handsome inmate Edgar Stark (Marton Csokas), an sculptor that in a crisis of jealousy had killed and disfigured his wife, and that is treated by Dr. Peter Cleave (Ian McKellen), an ambitious psychiatrist that aspired Max's position. During the afternoons, Stella has a hot adulterous affair with Edgar until the day he escapes and their affair is discovered. Stella has to take a decision between her family and her wild passion for Edgar."Asylum" is a sort of combination of "Madame Bovary" with "La Ragazza di Trieste", telling the wild and tragic passion of an ignored and bored woman and her descent into a hell life with a madman. The narrative is sexually tense, and the still sexy Natasha Richardson has a fantastic performance in the role of a woman that becomes obsessed by her destructive desire. Her chemistry with Marton Csokas is amazing, combining tension, madness and eroticism in a stylish cinematography. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Paixão Sem Limites" ("Passion Without Limits")

by kentucky_fried_fetus-1 5 minutes ago (Sat Aug 18 2007 08:37:54) Edit ReplyMy English is poor but I will try to explain my point of view. I think love is something so hard that happy ever after in most of all movies frequently end at the wedding. All romantics thoughts seems as utopias. Some people turn the page on with rational decisions others doesn't have the straight. After they did live together she understand that wasn't to meant, she was so weak mentally that she is incapable to see what was going on with her son, she is empty, alone and deluded. A sick person literally. This doctor is envy of her husband so he want everything that belongs him. He is a very manipulative person and he is consequently incapable of love. So Asylum as the name indicate is about crazy people and this doctor is the craziest. Please correct me if I am wrong.

(There are Spoilers) Beautifully photographed in and around the English and Wales countryside "Asylum" starts off innocently enough with psychiatrist Max Rapheal, Hugh Bonneville, getting the job as deputy administrator of this Victorian era mental institution outside of London. Having his ravishingly beautiful wife Stella and 12 year-old son Charile, Natasha Richardson & Gus Lewis, come along with him Dr. Rapheal quickly rises to the top taking over the day to day operations of the institution with the chief administrator old man Jack Straffen, Joss Ackland, announcing his sudden retirement.Everything at first goes smoothly with Max in charge even though his top medical man at the asylum Dr. Peter Cleave, Ian Mckellen, is a bit resentful of him by feeling that he's the man to run the place not Max being that he's been there your years and Max just for a few days. the bitter Dr Cleave may very well have unconsciously let things get out of hand later in the movie with Max's wife Stella and this dangerous inmate convicted wife murderer and artist Edgar Stark, Marton Csokas.Stella feeling that her stuffed shirted and very proper, when it comes to having wild and crazy sex with her, husband Max isn't up to the job of satisfying her most deepest and sinful desires slowly gravities to the very hot for her and earthy, in the sex department, Edger. Stella's uncontrollable desires for the sexy convicted murderer leads to a number of almost unbearable, for the audience to watch without without feeling that they tuned into an X-rated skin-flick, and wild sexual encounters. This leads Stella to leave her husband and young child and shack up with the later fugitive ,from justice and the mental institution, Edger Stark in this deserted downtown London loft.Edger now free and feeling that Stella is addicted to his both talents as an artist and animal-like magnetism begins to treats her with both contempt and insensitivity in being foolish enough to put up with him. Stella for her part takes all the punches and blows that Edger has to offer, or throw at, her but later falls for Edgers, as well as her, roommate at the loft the caring and sensitive Nick, Sean Harris, who want's to be part of a sexual acrobatic manaja twa, with him as the anchorman, with both Stella and Edger. This betrayal on Nick part leads Edgers to savagely beat him up, and then throwing Nick out of the loft altogether, together with Stella for daring to play around behind him back when he isn't looking.It's later when Stella is rescued from Edger by the London Police that an enraged Edger becomes more and more aggressive and tracks her down all the way to this little town in Wales, where Stella was living with both Max & Charlie, only to be captured again by the Wales Police and put back in the mental institution, from where Edger escaped from, now run by Dr. Cleave. Stella meanwhile is slowly suffering from a mental breakdown that will in he end lead her to let her son Charlie drown in a nearby lake, during a school field trip, with her who's supposed to look after him just sitting there on the rocks and ignoring his cries for help, until it was to late, as he went under for the third time.With her now being a totally destroyed woman Stella herself is institutionalized in the asylum and Stella's only hope now is to continue living is to rekindle her relationship with not her kind and caring husband Max, who had since divorced her. Meanwhile that vicious and manipulating psycho Edger Stark, who himself has been committed to the same place as Stella, has gone completely insane, or mute, in his refusing to talk or communicate with anyone there.With Dr. Cleave pulling the stings he not only tells Stella that her lover Edger is also a patient at his institution, which was totally unprofessional for him to do, he also tells, the now very eager to meet Edger, Stella that he'll be at the annual dance sponsored by the asylum and she can be his dance partner. This was a sick and cruel lie or joke on Dr. Cleaves part that, if that's what his reason was in the first place, instead of helping Stella get over her depression it drove her over the top and lead to the tragedy that happened to her at the end of the movie.