If sex was this boring, we’d have none of it. In this sorry excuse of an erotic trilogy, three young Thai directors are given the task of exploring sexuality in modern Thailand, to horrendous effect: The newbie actors are bad, the direction shoddy and the scripts barely titillating. We’d rather watch paint dry.
After a highly dubious (and laughable) prelude about why the film is so titled (something to do with unbleached brown sugar and how its unusual and unrefined sweetness is fascinating, just like sex—bah), the film quickly launches into the short “Prostitute on Bed,” about a slightly older man and a hot chick and the coy sex games they play; followed by “Love for Play,” more role-playing mumbo jumbo about teenage sex; and “Desire,” arguably the film’s best segment simply because the other two are just so godawful.
Nothing about this collection of erotica is tastefully done—the camera angles are lazy, the actors act like they’d rather be somewhere else (yes, even during the sex scenes) and the soundtrack is one of the most annoying we’ve ever heard (featuring swirling guitar riffs whenever a girl is about to climax). The only saving grace: A realistic 10-minute female masturbation scene in “Desire” which was done in one take, which pretty much sums up the film: One long wank job.
The reviewer awarded this movie zero stars.