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Jerzy Skolimowski attended the showing of this film at the London Film Festival to introduce it, although he didn't take questions. He announced that at a retrospective 20 years earlier, he had introduced his film The Adventures of Gerard by telling the audience that it was the worst film he ever made, but that he was in the position today to tell us that Essential Killing was the best film he ever made.
I don't really agree with that statement being a big fan of The Shout and The Lightship, both highly artistic and quirky movies that are unique. Essential Killing certainly has qualities but also some problems.
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The movie concerns a Talib fighter (played by Vincent Gallo) who is captured by the Americans in Afghanistan (Israel standing in for Afghanistan) and rendered to a Russian satellite country (probably meant to resemble Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan, but shot in Norway and Poland), where he escapes by chance and attempts to evade capture.
Vincent Gallo's performance is hugely creditable and he probably gets as close to fitting the role as any Western actor could. I was a little worried that the film was becoming a showcase for his acting skills however (or lack of acting skills as I suspect a huge number of his dyed-in-the-wool detractors will call them).
The movie juxtaposes attitudes, Gallo is a fighter, but not a fanatic, he's fighting out of religious duty, and accepts that what he is doing is hateful, but also believes it to be a manifestation of the will of Allah. When he kills someone, it is not him doing the killing, it is Allah. What is terrifying for him is that he's taken out of a milieu that is both comfortable and mystical for him and placed in a Northern winterscape that he can't begin to comprehend. The movie is respectful of Middle Eastern culture and I think often begs the question of what we are doing going there and disturbing their culture, we are as out of place as he becomes.
