Living In Seduced Circumstances Trailer

Living In Seduced Circumstance has been making the film festival rounds. This tale of revenge and torture coutinues director Ian Gamazon exploration of visceral shock and hand-held camera techniques. He crafts a deceptively simple revenge tale in which Mr. Thanh, (Long Nguyen, Journey of the Fall, Heaven and Earth) is kidnapped and brutally tortured by a mysterious woman Mihn (Quynn Ton).

The film opens with the pregnant Minh driving an unconscious older man to a secluded cabin in the woods. We glimpse hypodermic needles stashed in the car, and, a few swerving cuts later, Mr. Thanh is bloodied and bound to a wheelchair. As his captor tests Mr. Thanh’s mental and physical limits to their utmost, every assumption the audience makes is similarly tested and shattered. As Minh’s wanton acts grow increasingly intimate, a history of personal and national dispossession comes into view. Closure isn’t in the cards, but a climactic long take casts an unexpected sadness over the film that will have you scrambling to reconstruct earlier scenes. The climax is a collision of universal Freudian sexual dynamics with the bitter realities of the Vietnamese-American experience. Nothing in this taut tale is quite what it seems, and the final scenes are as surprising as they are psychologically intriguing. With LIVING IN SEDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES, Gamazon once again shows that low budget doesn’t necessarily mean low quality.