‘Cycle’ is not about bad guys and their victims.

That binary of good and evil is merely the symptom. Not the root cause of the problem.

This film seeks instead to explore the chain of Power which perpetuates the cycle of Violence.

 

‘Cycle’ is not about the wronged tribal or the abused woman 

or the oppression of the marginalized – all of which this film appears to be.

These are mere access points to hopefully help us turn our lens onto a species that continues to fail its own.

 

Although 'Cycle' is a genre film, of rape & vengeance,

what we seek to do along the way is to suddenly thrust upon a bloodthirsty audience – the idea of anti-vengeance.

And to deny the viewer any brutal satisfaction they expect and seek from a narrative of this kind.

 

Hopefully this film will question our frightening mob mentality in matters of retribution,

and start a conversation around the gaping chasm between collective and individual moralities,

to see individuals who are compelled to pick up a gun

as a complex product of circumstances, inequalities, fragilities and desperations.