The Intended

Brilliant!!! One of the outstanding Dogma95 films.

scenes were deleted from the original movie!!!!!! I want my money back!!!!

Beautiful movie

Roinks! It was tense and scary. Twisted. Like Deliverance, but a period drama in the steamy jungle - or the Marlon Brando bits in Apocalypse Now. Ok, maybe not that brutal, but the character dysfunction is palpable. I'm a huge JJ Feild fan, he's sympathetic and tragically heartbreaking in this - devoured and cruelly used by everyone, including mosquitos? I'd have given it fewer stars, but he's so gravitating to the point that every time he returns from the jungle, I felt saved too.

Great Movie

Fantastic.

Well, there go those abominable Europeans again, messing up the pristine Bornean wilderness with their self-hatred, greed, corruption, racism, and sexual perversion! Not what the dvd cover appears to promise? Definitely not. For while prospective viewers are lured by images of an adventurous romance in exotic climes, the film delivers absolutely nothing beyond a sordid wallow in decadence, degradation, and hopelessness. The female protagonist, who is described by her man as "so beautiful", is instead a dowdy, dumpy, frazzled frump who can't even seem to keep her sweaty, greasy, stringy hair out of her face. Her sloppy clothes are perpetually rumpled, damp-looking, and dirty. Her fingernails are filthy, though she does little else but sprawl about while her live-in is away surveying the tropical forest. Why this slattern bothers with a corset is anyone's guess, unless the director had her don it as a symbol of European antifeminism.The post's other two women--as well as the jungle-trekking male protagonist--look like they stepped out of a band box in comparison. Of course, one of the females wears her dead husband's underwear, and the other does nasty things with her former ward. But what can one expect of uncivilized Europeans? Well, to answer that--drunkenness, prostitution, theft, battery, murder, and suicide.It's difficult to discern whether the acting is good in this movie because the actors do little besides listlessly plodding or lolling about. The sex scenes are wooden, abortive, and/or downright disgusting. Obviously, the audience is meant to feel no sympathy for the main characters. They are, after all, Europeans.

This was a generally creepy film sure in part to the the story line and in part to the setting. The isolation of the jungle and its impact on the characters is profound. Wonderful acting especially by Janet McTeague, Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker! It's one of those films that makes you think about it long after it ends.