The home entertainment release of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives has been no stranger to the interactive experience. Following Empire Magazine’s competition for one lucky reader to design the cover of the Steelbook Blu-ray edition, Only God Forgives has stirred up a new interactive phenomenon on YouTube for audiences. This coincides with last week’s DVD, Blu-ray and Steelbook home entertainment release.
Julian (Gosling) runs a boxing club in Bangkok as a front for a drugs operation. He has everything he desires until his brother is murdered, and his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas), the head of a powerful criminal organisation, arrives to collect her son’s body. Furious with grief, she dispatches Julian to find his killers and ‘raise hell’. The stage is set for a bloody journey of betrayal and vengeance towards a final confrontation and the possibility of redemption.
Fans of the divisive and mesmerising “neon-drenched fairy tale” are invited to partake in a sing-along with the machete-wielding lieutenant Chang, a.k.a “God”, who in between distributing justice is known for his love of karaoke. Whilst previously audiences were left to as a spectator to Chang’s love of singing, they can now sing-along in Thai to Only God Forgives’ closing sequence…
Originally published December 9, 2013. Updated April 11, 2018.
