The Importance of Desire in Jade

Jade was intended in 1995 but one jade post-mortem interview with fredkin that i came across made me wonder whether the version of the film that you can watch today which purports to be the director's cut at all matches the director's initial intentions. The movie cost 50 million dollars to make and made less than nine million not in its first weekend in its full run at the u.s. box office. It clearly wants to borrow china town's conflation of sexual perversity with endemic institutional corruption but all it really manages to replicate is the sense of futility. When she has sex with her husband she lies there grimacing until a single tear falls from her