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Not as Cruel as I Had Hoped
Chris Kavan - wrote on 06/14/2009
As revenge flicks go, this was pretty cruel, although I don't agree with Tarantino that it was so brutal. Cult Swedish starlett Christina Lindberg is the heroine hooked on heroin, who plots gun-toting, race-car driving revenge and deservedly so. I can't think of a worse thing to do to a person than get them hooked on drugs and force them into prostitution (well, I can think of worse things, but it's still a vile thing to do).
Now, I have the uncut version. People say this is the version to see because of the very disturbing scalpel-in-the-eye scene. Also, it adds some completely unnecessary sex scenes that add nothing to the film as they aren't in the least welcome and obviously spliced in from a totally different movie. Lindberg is fine on her own, there's a reason she's a cult icon, …
