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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Victim (1961). It is a British LGBT-themed drama, and a protest and the draconian sodomy laws then in place. The film follows a married, secretly gay lawyer, who becomes the extortion target of a blackmailer, who takes pictures of him with another gay man. He goes to the police to pursue the blackmailer, but must conceal his own homosexuality in the process, and pretend that he was just a straight man in the wrong place at the wrong time. Drama ensues. God Damn the UKKK: The Movie. Director is Basil Dearden, whose horror/comedy anthology Dead of Night (1948) we previously watched. This is considered one of his best works, so let’s check it out.

After that is No Other Choice (2025), a crime comedy-thriller from renowned Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, the guy behind such other films as Oldboy (2003), Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), The Handmaiden (2016), Joint Security Area (2000), and Thirst (2009). A chronically-unemployed paper mill manager is gradually Jokerfied by a cruel, humiliating job market; eventually, he snaps, and decides to start eliminating the competition by violent means. Satire and dark humor follow from there as his schemes escalate to ever-more-ludicrous levels. Critics consider this one of the best films of the year.

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CWs for Victim:

  • Hanging
  • Suicide.
  • Cheating.
  • Death of LGBT person.
  • Hate speech.
  • Cheating.
  • Shower scene.
  • Vomiting.
  • Suicide attempt.
  • Fat jokes.
  • Homophobic slurs.
  • Sex…
  • Sad ending.

CWs for No Other Choice:

  • Vomiting.
  • Torture.
  • Domestic violence.
  • Jump scares.
  • Tooth damage.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Jump scares.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Bugs.
  • Gun violence.
  • Someone is physically restrained.
  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Drug addiction.
  • Death of family member.
  • Choking.
  • Stalking.
  • Snakes.
  • Razors.
  • Alcohol abuse.
  • Someone’s mouth is covered.
  • Someone is watched without their knowledge.
  • Farting.
  • Honking horns.
  • Screeching tires.
  • Shower scene.
  • Profanity.
  • Natural bodies of water.
  • Cheating.
  • Spitting.
  • Screaming.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Age-gap romance.
  • Sex.
  • Nudity.
  • Misophonia.
  • Gun violence.
  • Death of parent.
  • Sad ending.

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