Australian screenwriter and director Ana Kokkinos' second feature film which she co-wrote with Australian playwright and screenwriter Andrew Bovell, is an adaptation of a novel from 2000 by English author Rupert Thomson. It premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2006, was screened in the Visions section at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival in 2006, was shot on location in Melbourne, Australia and is an Australia-UK co-production which was produced by producer Al Clark. It tells the story about a ballet dancer named Daniel who lives in an apartment with his girlfriend named Babette and who whilst preparing for an upcoming ballet show is abducted by three unknown women.Distinctly and finely directed by Australian filmmaker Ana Kokkinos, this finely paced fictional tale which is narrated mostly from the main character's point of view, draws a heartrending and afflicting portrayal of an Australian man who after having been exposed to twelve days of utter humiliation and sexual molestation returns to his girlfriend as a shell-shocked and shattered man, and his relationship with his middle-aged ballet instructor. While notable for it's colorful, naturalistic and mostly interior milieu depictions, sterling production design by production designer Paul Heath and cinematography by Australian cinematographer Tristan Milani, this character-driven story which graphically and commendably examines non statutory female on male rape and which reverently goes against the overly stereotypical portrayal of gender roles in cinema, depicts an internal study of character and contains a good score by Polish composer Cezary Skubiszewski.This somewhat romantic, erotic to the point that it reduces the narrative and atmospheric drama which is set in Melbourne, Australia where a man wanders through nightclubs in a bewildering search for perpetrators whom he has no conclusive memory of as they were dressed like nuns and wearing hoods, is impelled and reinforced by it's at times cogent narrative structure, substantial character development, mysterious undertones, pivotal scene between the protagonist and two police officers and the fine acting performances by Australian actor Tom Long and Australian actresses Greta Scacchi and Deborah Mailman. A psychological, dramatic and somewhat anticlimactic mystery from the late 2000s.

It's not a biblical epic as the title might suggest but a sadistic drama of rape and revenge.Daniel (Tom Long) is rehearsing some complicated dance moves under the direction of his choreographer Isobel (Greta Scacchi). It's a violent and sexy routine as he leaps air borne swinging through the air at the end of a rope. Isobel is not 100 per cent pleased as she feels he lacks the required deep inner feeling for the role..With the rehearsal over, Daniel's partner wants a cigarette so Daniel dashes off to buy her a packet. He doesn't come back. Days and days pass, but still no Daniel. A private investigator is engaged to search for him.I suppose the revelation is that he was kidnapped by three women heavily cloaked in monks' robes but further details are sadly missing. They pin him down to the floor of a disused warehouse, each wrist shackled to the floor, each ankle shackled in the same way so when stripped of his clothes he looks like a large letter X. The black cloaked women hover about his naked body like crows over a human carcase raping him orally and anally as he screams to be released. "He stinks" says one "wash him" And then we see the erotic bathing of his face and body. This is really strong stuff for public viewing. But there is more to come. His hands are released on the promise he will masturbate himself so that the lascivious women can watch with glee the changing expressions on his face.After 12 days they are done with him and he is dumped blind-folded in a dusty field. Humiliated and disgusted he finds his way back to his partner. After the intensity of the earlier scenes. the film here begins to sag. Daniel clamps up and nobody else presses him for information about his recent absence.The rest of the film is pretty much a lone search by Daniel to find the perpetrators of his ordeal. I found the scene at the police interview quite unconvincing. And where do you start when looking for a girl with a tattoo on her breast or a redhead with a glorious head of hair. And how do you know it's really the one you're after. No matter. He stalks and rapes them. In a way he's getting his own back.Eventually he meets up with the policeman who has been searching for him. He seems to heed the policeman's advice "You've been starting at the end. You should start at the beginning". Rather odd advice if you ask me. But it does give you something to figure out as the film ends. As a matter of fact there are a lot of unanswered questions. All the same I'm glad I watched this Australian film. It's very different, though some might find it offensive.

Book of Revelations starts very well. Daniel, an egomaniac dancer is kidnapped, abused and sexually raped by three masked women.After that, nothing else really happens. There is some hint of rediscovery but the movie gives nor explanation nor a real ending. Daniel reactions after the abuse are very basic. He quits dancing, has sex with every women around and finally starting a relation with very simple and common woman.I have seen a good share of art-house movies but this has something missing in it.The main leads are fine; but some characters does not seems to be completely defined.

I was also disappointed with this movie. For starters, the things that happen to him don't seem too terrible to me (Sorry male chauvinist PoV). As is pointedly said by one of the lady captors: "Most men would _pay_ to be in your position". To which he replies "But this is not _my_ choice". OK, OK, fair point, so how bad was it really? Please let us know. But now the kicker: He does not let _anyone_ know, until after the movie-end (unseen). Not his girlfriend, not is mentor, not the police, not anyone. In stead, he comes up with the brilliant plan of f*ck*ng every girl he knows, so he may recognize the tattoo (or something) of one of his captors. I thought he'd just had enough unpleasant sex during the 12 days of his captivity? Isn't it time to take a little break from all that? For me, his, to put it mildly, ill advised actions broke the "suspension of disbelief" of the movie. I took out a book while watching the last half hour out of the corner of my eye.