the city is slowly enveloped in a smog in the back streets of kuala lumpur where migrant labour from all around the world finds a home and work. tamil film music glows off tv screens in shop windows, a river flows below a bridge where love can be made, the roads are empty but for a few passing cars and lonely men looking for some kind of connection. a man takes on two avatars where he forms the object of love and care. in one version he is beaten up by goons and left for dead when he is found and nursed back to health by a migrant from bangladesh. in the other, he is in a coma being cared for by the women in his family. somehow the two stories meet at end in a somewhat unnecessarily dramatic moment. but otherwise the erotic is perpetually present in the beautifully constructed long still frames. a mattress, a construction site and a glowing electric bouquet bind the two stories together and in the last frame all three meet in an over the top symbolic scene as the smog descends. gorgeous film.
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