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Corkscrew 
A word of warning... Él contains two torture
scenes, and long ones at that. This definitely isn't my thing, and I imagine most
of you reading this will feel the same way. Hell, if I wanted torture, I'd go
to a Cleveland Indians game. Él takes
place in the near future, presumably on Earth. Most of the world has been wiped
out in the oft-used nuclear war plot-device. What's presumably left of humanity
is concentrated in one city. The police of this city are known as Snipers, and
our main character, coincidentally known as Él, is a member of this force.
Our enemy for this little show is a man known only as Mr. Gimmick, and the people
in his employ, Black Widows. The torture scenes arise when the Snipers capture
a Black Widow and basically attempt to hate-fuck information out of them. Aside
from this, Él is assigned to act as a bodyguard for the famous pop singer
Parsley. Over the course of the two episodes, these two fall in love and end up
having a pretty ho-hum sex scene, the culmination of which finds these two spraying
gold fluid everywhere; I'm not sure if they're peeing or what, but considering
the rest of this show, I wouldn't be surprised. Aside from an interesting twist
in the end, this show is pretty much throw away to begin with, and the torture
and rape that dominations the proceedings makes it impossible to recommend. |
| 1. Tempy
In the not so distant future mankind has somewhat recovered
from a devastating nuclear apocalypse. Él is a Sniper, some kind of law
enforcing agent. The Black Widows led by Mr. Gimmick have been wreaking havoc
in their attempt to obstruct the implementation of the "Megaro Earth Project".
Somehow Él ends up protecting Parsley, a pop idol. People get killed left
and right while everybody tries to guess who Mr. Gimmick really is, and if you're
hoping for some ass-kicking by Él, you can forget it. The story is lousy,
plain and simple. Most of the time we're being presented with scenes of torture
(two words: fermenting milk), rape, watersports, and other unpleasantness. The
conclusion is quite interesting though, actually making some abstract sense of
the story, but its full dramatic impact is severely hampered by the poor execution
of the events transpired before. Avoid. |
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