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Best movie of this year hands down!

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

As some other reviewers have already pointed out, "Kissed" is not a bad film because it tries to tackle the taboo subject of necrophilia -- it's a bad film because it does a bad job of dealing with the subject matter. It's as if the writer and director wanted to make a "Lifetime" movie about necrophilia. (See how yucky that is? Well...that's pretty much the feeling throughout the movie as well.) As I stated in one of the board threads, what I found most disturbing about this film was not the subject matter of necrophilia, although that clearly IS something very disturbing in itself. What I found most disturbing is the fact that the film maker has attempted to somehow glorify that sick, twisted fetish and equate it with love. It is NOT LOVE. It is mental illness of the highest order. And to even begin to glamorize, beautify, or glorify it, as this film does, is even more offensive than the subject matter itself.IF the film had at least attempted to try to UNDERSTAND necrophilia -- which in and of itself would have been one hell of an undertaking -- that would be different. But it doesn't come close to doing that. What it does is titillate and obfuscate the issue(s), then paint some twisted variation of a Disney "ain't love grand" nonsensical ending over top of it.Kissed might arguably be a worthwhile film to watch if for nothing else than to see what necrophilia is NOT, and to stimulate some sort of thought process into what it might be. Aside from that, the film has little if any redeeming value.

This is a purposefully simple and obvious film, but good. Could it have been more complex or developed? Sure. Did it need to be? I think not. The goals were achieved. The mood was executed appropriately, and the performances were given well enough that additional development, while perhaps useful, was not necessary to the objective.Do we need to know why the little girl is attracted to dead things? Not really, unless you're doing a psyche profile on her. For dramatic purposes, it is simply enough to note that she has a life long relationship to it. In fact, in this case there is even a romanticism & perhaps myth centering around her obsession, such that overly defining how it came about would defeat its allure. That allure is what the film is embracing, the allure of necrophilia being more than just a sexual fetish, involving perhaps all four of the principal characters, the girl, her boyfriend, her mentor, & even the custodian, all of whom have varied, & uniquely unnatural fascinations with the subject.The story is direct, & it drives straight to the point without delay, & its characters all have a purpose & design, which conclude fittingly, even including the girl's undertaker mentor, who gets a glimpse into her truth at the end & leaves speechless, knowing all too well what is really happening, just as his custodian knows too well the truth of him.Anyway, onto the question everybody needs answered. Is this arousing? Well, in any well adjusted sense, of course the notion of making love to the dead is not supposed to be sexually arousing, but the film is, or at least alluring, if not in a fully sexual way. Truth be told, there is something arousing about this film, even if it's only arousing to the subject of necrophilia in a voyeuristic way. In short, it's not arousing such that it makes you want to go hump a corpse, but it does make you want to watch her do it. As such, the film is a success at pushing the artistic envelop. To understand the level of difficulty in achieving something like this, one need only reflect on how impossible it would be to make an equally enticing story about any other abominable fetish, like fecophilia. Sounds pretty tough doesn't it? A great deal of the success in making this story alluring was in how it was presented & by whom, & I mean specifically the well played performance given by the celestially beautiful Molly Parker, whose every square inch of freckled majesty I worship, so much so that I too would hang myself, sooner than look away from her glorious visage, or turn away from hearing the hushed tones of her sweet & transcendent voiceI would feel myself bask in her radiance, even if it were a movie wherein she only sat at a bus stop & read from the phone book. I'll watch anything that woman is in, & in this case, I felt I spent my time wisely.

Obviously not for everyone but I just love this little film. I am sure there are plot holes galore but I am persuaded by the film's inner truth. From those early shots of the young girl's ritualistic behaviour and the chilling/exciting manner in which she strokes herself with the little parcels, one is surely hooked and ready to explore the world of this young lady who wishes to cavort with the departed. There is just enough humour and masses of emotion. Molly Parker and Peter Outerbridge are most convincing in their difficult roles, his probably even more difficult than hers. She has to convince us of the attractiveness of the unthinkable but he has to convince us that he can go along with all this as her girlfriend, and does. It reminded me a bit of Peter Jackson's, Heavenly Creatures (back when he made real films!) and I think it was because of that rarely convincingly conveyed mix of true innocence and corruption. Heady stuff,

TO me, the most ridiculous, pretentious, dull, slow-moving, sickening piece of junk pseudo-art in a long time. The directors/producer/ artwork/writer/and many other self centered tasks in HER film ( did I forget gaffer/ sound/ lightman/ catering/executive prod./ costumes/ make up/etc/etc/etc/ ad nauseum as well? ) connivance has catapulted her into the top ten worst writers with the worst film idea since I don't know when, probably forever....what a sick mind to present necrophilia anyway....does it turn her on ?........it is to me just a pinch away from snuff porn. ....oh and one more thing! Near the end when the guy dies immediately after kicking the stool away to hang himself ?......sorry director, doesn't happen that way or that fast takes quite a long time to die that way, or didn't you know that ?......do some research next time...... Sorry folks...it's my opinion.