I see this movie has a 5.0. Frankly I'm utterly disgusted. The Monkey's Mask is a beautiful flow of film, featuring two intriguing, mesmerizing characters in the shoes of two exceptional performances, more notably that of Suzie Porter, one of the greatest young Aussie actresses from the late 90's. Her performance is amazing, electrifying, captivating, truly doing her lead character justice. Just watch her mannerisms, movements, for one. TMM has a fresh feel, and again is another independent, arthouse treat. Now about the 5.0 imdb average.... where the hell did it go wrong? The ones, disfavoring this, probably thought it was boring, didn't like the flavor of story, or may'be couldn't make any sense of it. You must really look at the two flawed characters, and too that poor unhappy teen girl poet, whose life was cut short. Her parents utilize and implore the services of lesbian freelance PI (Porter) to track down the killer, who could of been another poet at the club, the teen girl, belonged to. Suspicion falls heavily on the father, as does. when we have, a young daughter murdered. in other films, or real life. Investigations lead her to, a married and bi poet lecturer (surprising American import Mcgillis). A deep sexual affair, attraction takes up, and soon both are bare, and doing it anyway, for the movie viewer's much appreciative and subtle pleasure. What I like about The Monkey's Mask, besides it's high originality, and provocative performances, is it doesn't give too much away. Judge and view this one for yourself.
Review of The Monkey's Mask
