Kinds of Kindness (2024)

Plots of Kinds of Kindness: There are three stories. The first concerns a man Robert whose whole life is controlled by Raymond, who could also be his boss. Raymond instructs Robert to crash his car into a passing BMW, which he does but does not really injure the driver. Raymond tells him to do it again harder, but Robert refuses, so his whole life falls apart. He meets Rita also controlled by Raymond who has done the job and is in hospital, so is the driver of the BMW so Robert takes him out into the car pak and kills him, restoring him to Raymond’s good books. The second story concerns a policeman whose wife a biologist has been lost on an expedition. But she is found and returned to him. He does not believe the woman is really her, and is put on the sick when he starts to behave erratically. When he commands her to injure herself she does and dies, but then his wife appears at the door. The third film involves two accolytes of a cult who are looking for a woman who can raise the dead. The woman is raped by her former husband and is isolated from the cult, but then finds someone who fits the requirements and raises a dead person to life.

Content: In the second story there is quite graphic video of two couples in an orgy, brief film of a woman masturbating and a lot of dirty talk. In the third film there is female nudity because the accolytes have the measure the relationship between the lady’s nipples and belly button (for an unknown reason). Also in the third film some drinking, the husband drugs his wife and rapes her  while she in unconcious. In the third film the couple drive about in a purple muscle car, much featured in the trailers on TV.

A View: My wife and I went to see this without knowing anything about it except who the director was. We had seen some of his other films. The offerings are not similarly illogical but all are watchable and provide food for thought, so the very lengthy run time passes quite painlessly. I have chosen to more or less describe the whole stories, because honestly it doesn’t matter. You still have to work it all out. So worth the price of admission.

Fun Fact: The muscle car,  a Dodge Callenger, is owned by Emma Stone’s husband.