Movie Review: Modify
An overview of the question of body modification in all it’s aspects, from simple tattooing to cauterising branding, body building to plastic surgery, piercing to full body suspension using large hooks. Some aspects of this documentary are definitely not for children or the squeamish (or me), it includes video of plastic surgeries, branding, body-piercing, guys putting things in their penises, a person getting a tongue split, etc.
If you can handle all that, the interviews with various people examining the nuances behind body modification are interesting. It is approached from several different view points and comes across mostly well thought out. At several points in the film though they degraded to trying to appealing to the salacious appetite of the viewer, with repeated showings of women in various strip shows. I think to show off their piercing(s)/cuts, but it just came across as a way to show T&A.
I can’t say I liked it or would recommend it to anyone else. I didn’t hate it though either. I rate it zero stars out of five for ‘ambivalent’.
