Laksmi

　　A woman in the frame’s foreground watches events unfolding in a room. Suddenly, hitherto hidden by her figure, her double enters the scene, and catastrophe ensues. Is this a tricky horror-mystery-thriller by Dario Argento or Brian De Palma? No, it is the extraordinary, unexpected gesture of Indonesian master Garin Nugroho marrying his penchant for other-worldly fantasy with myriad devices of popular genre. A Rotterdam regular over the past twenty-seven years, Nugroho’s impressive body of work spans features, documentaries and shorts, among these acclaimed Opera Jawa, selected for IFFR 2007.                                                                    　　The tale of an enigmatic serial killer within the worlds of art and high fashion owes much to the global form of the giallo genre. Still, Nugroho reveals this framework to accommodate Indonesian mythology and spirituality entirely. Masks, snakes, clothing fabrics, trance dances; this entire iconography takes on a renewed, vibrant meaning in Deadly Love Poem. Likewise, modern criminal psychological profiling sits comfortably alongside the intergenerational traumas of family life and cultural constraints.                                                                    　　With its non-stop music score, ever-mobile camera, mind-blowing colour and design scheme, Deadly Love Poem stands as an exhilarating corrective to the snobbish current trend of ’elevated horror’ cinema. Nugroho respects old and new traditions and whips them into an unforeseen, intoxicating delirium.                                                                    　　源自：

丹德丽和丹德拉是孪生姐弟，弟弟喜欢偷供奉在神庙里的鸡蛋回来让姐姐煮。他们每次吃鸡蛋时，姐姐会把蛋黄给弟弟，自己吃蛋白。弟弟颅内有个肿块压迫大脑，他会渐渐失明失聪，最终失去所有知觉。弟弟住院，姐姐把小狗偷偷带进医院陪他玩耍，看着弟弟耍皮影，还陪弟弟一起在医院里种稻苗，听他弹奏乐器。随着弟弟病情加重，家里被悲伤的气氛环绕，妈妈时不时以泪洗面。为了让弟弟的病情有所好转，家人们用尽了各种方式：妈妈会弹琴给丹德拉听，丹德丽会陪丹德拉跳舞。然而，最终奇迹还是没能降临到丹德拉身上。