Very disappointed :(

Purely Joyful Movie!

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

"Wild Side" is one of those little B type made movies that you as the viewer enjoy as it's plot has you to think and you soon find that no one is who they seem. And for a suspense thriller it has many twist and turns of betrayal and drama plus it's blended nice with spice of an erotic feel and much skin a good sexual tease. The story is interesting involving the world of money, banking and scandal as an attractive young woman with a double life sees this dangerous cat and mouse game that unfolds. Anyway Alex(the raw and sexy Anne Heche)is a bank employee by day and a sexy high class lingerie wearing call girl by night, and things get complex when one of her customers is the crazy and con man type guy Bruno(Christopher Walken)and things are more complex when Bruno's wife(played beautiful by Joan Chen) enters the picture for him and Alex both the world now is fast cash and kinky thrills as this little money laundering scheme will corrupt all and desire takes unexpected twist for all involved. Overall sexy suspense erotic thriller that's worth a watch.

Legend goes that after the studio took from his hands Wild Side to recut in something resembling a commercial picture, Donald Cammell shot himself in the head, survived for 45 minutes, and asked his wife (co-screenwriter in this and White of the Eye China Kong) for a mirror to watch his last moments. I say legend because there's the same scene in his previous film White of the Eye, and Hollywood loves to print the legends of its heroes and antiheroes. Whether or not it's true, Donald Cammell killed himself over his art and that should say something. As with every man who takes his own life, there was violence in his soul and as a true artist (not just a technician) naturally there is violence in his art.People may like this simply because it's outrageous, because the human behavior is demented, like a crazy man in the street will always attract a crowd. There's a 15 minute scene where Christopher Walken threatens to rape Steve Bauer at gunpoint and it's amazing to see something as gleefully audacious captured on film. But there's more to the film for me than outrage, or even emotional and moral devastation. There's a camera that disorients and distorts our gaze, editing that cuts across time and space and thoughts, and a glimpse at a world that is alive and vivid. I love how Cammell photographs his electric night, it reminds me of what Wong Kar Wai was doing at around the same time, or the drenched neonoirs of Takashi Ishii, and it prefigures Michael Mann's journeys into the nights of Los Angeles in Collateral and Miami Vice. The nightsky is humming with deep blues, the lights blur and bleed, and walls are painted in vibrant reds or sickly greens.Like White of the Eye before it, Wild Side threatens to make no sense yet it does, there's a plot and a resolution, but none of it is very important (I'm still undecided that Cammell thinks that). It's a strange film made stranger yet by the fact that it doesn't purport hidden insights to be unlocked. Sometimes it flails and convulses in a monstrous almost-Zulawskian way but there's little meaning behind that flailing, it's the flailing itself that matters, the violent anarchy of emotion and expression. Christopher Walken's unhinged overacting is a prophecy of Nic Cage to come and must be seen to be believed. The film itself is not so much a prophecy, but rather the ramblings of a crazed mind that yearns and aches. See it if you've stepped out of the box.

Anne Heche, Christopher Walken, Joan Chen, and Steven Bauer have never been better in this quirky, daring, amusing, and erotic thriller. Try to catch it on pay cable, where it's regularly aired. Apparently, the director's cut is even better.

It's addictive, once you get into it - Christopher Walken's Bruno uckingham - a multimillionaire money-launderer - is dangerous and unpredictable.A casual sexual encounter between him and call girl Alex, played by Ann Heche, develops into a love triangle, or rectangle if you include Walken's obnoxious and predatory driver, played by Steven Bauer. The driver turns out to be working undercover. Walken's wife/girlfriend arrives on the scene and you have a passionate all female sexual encounter between her and the Ann Heche, who is also leading a double life.But there's a scam going on - Bruno Buckingham plans to disrupt the banking system with a computer virus and use the opportunity to transfer millions of dollars of ill-gained funds. A sting is planned by the police, but will it be successful?A simple plot, but complex encounters between various characters, captured on a hand-held camera, and with the beautiful and haunting background music of Ryuichi Sakamoto, make for a highly intriguing and watchable film, if you like this sort of thing (I do). I loved the momentary flashbacks of sex scenes in the character's head as she's in the office. A little bit quirky, like the films of director Nicholas Roeg.Christopher Walken is remarkable, with his menacing and almost other-worldly on-screen presence. Ann Heche is captivating, and the love scenes between her and Buckingham's wife/lover, played by Virginia Chow, are quite passionate, and have the quality of a real encounter.If you're expecting a simple dénouement, don't. As in real life things aren't cut and dry, though the ending is satisfying.