| Silip: Daughters of Eve |  | Director: Elwood Perez
Actors: Sarsi Emmanuelle, Mark Joseph, Maria Isabel Lopez, Myrna Manibog
Studio: EMI Music Distribution (Pre-Release)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 45,887
Format: Color, DVD, Limited Edition, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: RKOD601339D
UPC: 843276013394
EAN: 0843276013394
ASIN: B000WMFZRO
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: November 20, 2007
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 17
 A ONE-OF-A-KIND TRIP December 18, 2007
A. Falcon (Brooklyn, NY)
80 out of 85 found this review helpful
The movie opens with one of the major characters, Simon Kalabaw (played by Mark Joseph), clobbering a buffalo over the head with a poleax in the presence of distressed, crying children. The butcher pounds away until the animal collapses, slits its throat, eviscerates it, and decapitates it.
After this extremely disturbing scene, the movie unfolds to portray the lives of several people in a small Philippine village, played by a cast of talented actors. Tonya, played by Maria Isabel Lopez, is a chaste woman and a fill-in for the town's ill Catholic priest; she is the substitute "teacher" who inculcates in her pupils abstinence and purity, and who warns the girls of the dangers of yielding to their sexual desires for men, whom she calls devils. Selda (Sarsi Emmanuelle) is her antithesis, a woman who relishes and indulges in carnal pleasures. Simon, the icon of masculinity, is revered by Selda; by his girlfriend (Myra Manibog), who can't tame his waywardness; and by Tonya herself, who struggles to repress her desire for him because of her religious beliefs. Even Pia (Pia Zabale), a girl of about twelve, is obsessed with Simon.
Silip is filled to the brim with nudity and simulated (though convincingly realistic and highly erotic) sex; both Maria Isabel's and Sarsi's graceful feminine forms are a delight to behold. The violence in the movie is fierce and visceral, requiring a strong stomach on the part of the viewer.
But the movie does more than aim for cheap, exploitative thrills. It effectively underscores how the church pointlessly exerts too much effort on condemning sex instead of addressing far more important realities such as the selfishness, cruelty, and barbarousness inherent in humanity. Few are exempt from committing atrocities in this film.
The cinematography is excellent, the camera adeptly conveying the arid, barren quality of the sandy settings as well as a quiet, voyeuristic feel in many of the scenes. The widescreen picture is surprisingly good. Colors are realistic though somewhat soft, and detail is impressive for an aged film that has clearly degraded with time--as dust, specks, and scratches will confirm. However, these flaws are not significantly distracting. What is a little more intrusive are a pair of fixed cloudy spots in a few scenes and a dark-blue cast in a couple of scenes that appear to take place in the daytime. Fortunately these instances are brief. The two-channel sound is clear and unexceptional. Audio options include Tagalog with English subtitles and English dubbed. The latter is not at all worth considering.
There is a second disc with extras that include the following:
An essay titled "Silip and Filipino Bold Cinema"
An interview with the film director, Elwood Perez
An interview with the still lovely Maria Isabel Lopez
An interview with the art director, Alberto Santos
Cast and crew biographies
Mondo Macabro movie trailers
In short, this is a unique, well-shot film with intensely erotic moments and truly disturbing violence. It makes a clear statement about the dark side of the human soul and stays with the viewer well after it is over.
Boundaries are crossed, no limitations...... November 28, 2007
Swamptreasurechest (Amsterdam)
28 out of 31 found this review helpful
Wow, is simply put when viewing this movie.... This is why Asian cinema is considered to be the most extreme genre of film making.... Not for the faint of heart if you love animals or respect the catholic religion... Possibly one of my favorite movies to come out of Asia... It is also a very steamy erotic movie with lots of sex on the beach and in a bamboo stick home....
Amazing film June 6, 2009
Christopher R. Travers (Chelan, WA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I found this movie to be quite unerotic, but very thought-provoking despite the nudity, sexual subject matter, and graphic sex. This evaluation is borne out on both the good and bad reviews of this movie so it is worth stating up front. Those looking for a porn flick should look elsewhere.
The movie opens with the slaughter of an ox, called a carabao while onlooking children cry and beg Simon to let the ox live. Simon responds that all of them will be fed by the ox, and that they can protest as much as they want but they will discover soon enough how cruel life can be. This scene sets the feel for the movie: gritty, brutal, rough, and at the same time human.
The movie follows three psychologically damaged women through stories regarding their approaches towards sexuality and sexual trauma in their past. Tanya (played by Maria Isabel Lopez) suffers from extreme sexual repression and fear, while the other two find various sexual outlets. The story involves a great deal of religious repression misogyny, etc. It is not a movie for the faint of heart.
The cinematography is great and the acting ranges from extremely good to not very good. The story is thought-provoking. Highly recommended.
essential PI bold October 30, 2008
John Smith (Astoria OR)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
In the Philippines, "bold" films are films that show a lot of skin. SILIP is one of the boldest of the bold. SILIP has nudity and violence galore. The opening scene, the real slaughter of a carabao with an ax, hints at what's coming. The dvd has both the original Tagalog version with English subtitles and an English dubbed version. The original with the mesmerizing soundtrack is superior.
SILIP ("peeping" in Tagalog) is a difficult film to categorize. At first glance, it looks like exploitative drive-in fare. Then the film gets under your skin. Is it saying something about the church? Is it sexist? Look at the barren landscape and all the blue. Is the blue supposed to simulate night or some twisted Garden of Eden? What's with the carabao, dunes, and writhing nudity? I'm struggling with two possible interpretations. Either SILIP is a polemic about the unnatural strictures placed upon women by men and the church, or a satire of rural life in the Philippines.
Other reviews have focused on the film's sex and violence. Both the violence and sex are jaw dropping, but the film's acerbic humor signals there's more in the film than just sex and violence. Check out the caricatured American tourist that tries to have sex with everything that moves. Then there's the scenes where everyone in town crowds around to watch the foreigner eat, and all the women in the family pile into one bed to sleep.
Mondo Macabro is to be commended. I've been limping along with a VHS version, dubbed into English with Chinese subtitles. The dvd has some minor flaws, but is a vast improvement of the previous versions in circulation. The extras include an interview with Maria Isobel Lopez. She's articulate and still a stunner. My main beef is the subtitles, obviously done by a foreigner. It would have been better to use a native speaker to avoid the preaching and occasional jarring interjection of "bloody" into the translation.
If you like something different, and can deal with outrageous commentary on life, death, sex, religion, and everything, SILIP is worth a look.
for viewers who want offbeat and bizarre August 16, 2010
Carlos Lopez Jr. (The Metroplex)
The semi-low rating this product receives is due to the ignorance of the buyer. They read no description but were automatically engaged by the cover art. Talk about superficial.
This movie is indeed, unclassifiable as a whole. There are desert island scenes that are reminiscent to Jodorowsky's masterpieces(notably El Topo / Holy Mountain). I had never known of Pinky Violence, the sub-genre, to be outside of Japan, but Silip dares to go there, like other places the majority of people would rather not see or hear of. Quien Puede Matar a un Nino also comes to mind. These children are far more sinister than anything portrayed in the aforementioned "Who Can Kill a Child?" There's drama entwined with some hardcore sexploitation / sexual tension. The actors made a serious commitment to their work. On that not of seriousness - the dubbed version is very laughable. I had seen the voice-overed firstly, and walked away thinking it was a comedy. It became camp through the bastardization. On a second watch with subtitles... It is evident that this is extreme arthouse with a definite serious flare. I simply love this movie and it gets my 4 stars - actually 5, to balance out the 1 star rating of certain reviewers who have no right to cause a well done film look unappealing through the ratings system.
YES. There is violence in sex. Rape. Gang rape.
YES. There is what some my consider mild pedophilia.
YES. Innocents are sentenced to a horrible demise
YES. An Ox is graphically beat with an axe, then slaughtered within the intro.
Know these things before you purchase this DVD. Kudos, Mondo Macabro.
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