The film centers on (Gina Gershon), an ex-con working as a plumber in an apartment building, and her neighbor Violet (Jennifer Tilly), the mistress of a violent mobster named Caesar (Joe Pantoliano).
Released in 1996, Bound is a neo-noir erotic crime thriller that follows Corky (Gina Gershon), a tough ex-con, and Violet (Jennifer Tilly), a mobster’s girlfriend . Together, they hatch an intricate scheme to steal $2 million in Mafia money and frame Violet’s violent boyfriend, Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) . bound 1996 qartulad 2021
Why Bound and not, say, The Matrix (also by the Wachowskis, also dubbed later)? Because Bound is intimate. Its politics are domestic, not dystopian. Its revolution happens in a single apartment, not a simulated world. For a Georgian viewer raised on Soviet-era censorship and post-Soviet homophobia, watching Violet and Corky speak Georgian—hearing “მიყვარხარ” (miqvarkhar, “I love you”) in their native tongue—was a visceral rupture. The language of the home, of the mother, of tradition, was suddenly speaking queer desire. That is more dangerous than any bullet. The film centers on (Gina Gershon), an ex-con