There is very little daylight throughout the film, and most of the nighttime scenes feature very dark red tones with dark shadows. This Thailand is not the resort of "Thailand", drug dealers, prostitutes, killers and bad cops - it is a paradise for crime.
The film's deliberately slow pace further amplifies director Nicolas Winding Refn's obsession with violence and sex. The dead brother's obsession with violence, the twisted mother-son relationship, and the murderous black police officer. Story structure is irrelevant here, everything seems to serve those R-rated gore and delicately balanced compositions. This is more of a semi-finished product with an experimental and exploratory spirit.
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