Came out in July 2013.
This is one messed up movie! Check out the plot summary below, which leaves out the mother having sex with two of her sons!
Julian (Ryan Gosling) is an American expatriate who runs a Muay Thai club in Bangkok, Thailand, that is actually a front for a massive drug smuggling operation. His older brother Billy brutally rapes and kills an under-age prostitute before being caught by the Thai police. Lieutenant Chang arrives on the scene before informing the girl’s father, Choi Yan Lee. Chang allows Choi to beat Billy to death, but cuts off the man’s arm for allowing his young daughter to remain in the business of prostitution.
Julian and his crew go to Choi’s kiosk to confront him about his part in Billy’s murder but spares his life. Julian’s mother, Crystal, arrives in Bangkok to identify Billy’s corpse. Crystal demands Julian find and kill the men who killed Billy, but he refuses—believing that Choi had some justification for seeking retribution for the killing of his daughter—infuriating her.
One night, Julian brings a prostitute, Mai, to meet Crystal, who immediately begins hurling insults at her and Julian. Meanwhile, one of the fighters at Julian’s boxing club assassinates Choi at the behest of Gordon, a member of Julian’s crew, at Crystal’s request. Later, the police investigating Choi’s murder arrive at Julian’s club but Chang concludes that Julian is not Choi’s killer.
After learning that Chang was involved in Billy’s death, Crystal meets with an associate, Byron, to arrange Chang’s assassination. Three gunmen are sent to kill Chang at a restaurant, and one of Chang’s men is fatally wounded in the ensuing shoot-out. Chang manages to kill two of the gunmen and capture the third, who leads him to his boss Li Po, after which Chang kills the third gunman. Li Po points Chang to Byron, who ordered the hit. Chang finds Byron in a club and tortures him to get answers. Byron reveals the reasoning behind the hit, but refuses to give a name. Chang continues to torture Byron, cutting out his eyes and inserting a spike into his ear.
Later, Julian confronts Chang and challenges him to a fight and they fight on the bare concrete floor of Julian’s boxing venue. Chang, an experienced boxer, easily and thoroughly beats Julian. Afterwards, Crystal tells Julian that Chang has figured out she ordered the hit on him. Fearfully, she pleads with Julian to kill Chang to protect her. Julian agrees.
Julian and his associate Charlie Ling enter Chang’s apartment, intent on ambushing him when he returns. At the same time, Chang and a police officer visit Crystal and Chang ends up cutting her throat after she reveals that Julian murdered his own father. Meanwhile, Charlie informs Julian that he was instructed to execute not only Chang, but his entire family. Charlie murders the nanny of Chang’s daughter as she enters the apartment, but in an act of redemption, Julian shoots Charlie and kills him before he could kill Chang’s young daughter.
Julian returns to the hotel and finds his mother’s corpse. In silence, he approaches her body and cuts open her abdomen. Julian slowly places his hand inside of the wound, and then retracts it. After leaving and having several surreal visions, Julian is shown standing in a field with Chang, who appears to cut off both of Julian’s hands with his sword. The final scene returns to Chang singing at a karaoke bar with an audience of attentive police officers, watching him in amazement.
What a messed up movie!
Sort of reminds me of A Serbian Film, except ASF is way worse. ASF was banned and censored all over the world, which was arguably the right thing to do. Some stuff is just too messed up to even release to the public.
