In 1992, Nine Inch Nails released the "Broken" EP. It was followed in 1993 by a short film, roughly 20 minutes in length, known as the "Broken Movie". The movie wove Broken's four music videos together via a violent "snuff film" and included its own video for the song "Gave Up" as its conclusion. Due to its extreme graphic content, the Broken Movie was never officially released. But in Christmas 2006, NIN secretly released it on BitTorrent along with the free 2 DVD set closure deluxe prototype.
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Trent Reznor is (in my opinion) one of the best rock artists of our time. I've loved everything he's put out pre-With Teeth and no matter what direction he heads in I will always want to see and hear what he does. That said, I watched Broken completely devoid of expectations. I knew it was violent, I knew the history of the film and knew it shocked most. I'm not squeamish at all so I figured it would be great to see it.The story (persay) has to do with a serial killer and victim and is extremely intense. I was very--disgusted? disturbed? I don't know what exactly--by the torture sequences and was glad when they where over. But, one thing is for sure, Broken marks a part of the history of NIN and does it artistically and with the measure of intensity of the album. I'm glad I saw it, but, I'm completely unsure whether anything like this needs to be on film.6/10 stars
Broken was a fantastic album, a self-described "ultra-fast chunk of death." However, that descriptive would better describe the music video accompaniment to the EP. Due to extremely graphic content, this short collection of videos of (fake) torture, rape, sadomasochism, and murder will never see an official release, though it's been widely rumored that Trent Reznor himself leaked a DVD-quality copy on the internet.Fans of the band, or those with a morbid curiosity need only apply. The scenes are violent, often hard to watch, but like a horrible car crash on the side of the road, you can't help but look. Track it down; it's quite easy enough to find on the Internet. Just be sure not to give copies of it to your unsuspecting friends for Christmas, as one reviewer here has done. As he suggested, you may lose more friends than you'll be keeping.
Well, being a hardcore NIN fan myself - and obviously the rest of the people commenting here are aswell - it seems very strange to me how everybody refers to "Broken" as unreleased and something you can only come by via bootlegged versions on the net..Wrong! WRONG, guys! It's been released in the public as a 2 tape set (I have the VHS version, probably there's a DVD aswell..), called "CLOSURE", feating all the videos aswell and a full tape with documentar off the Downward Spiral tour - it's even stabled with Reznor's typical halo-numbers and this one is no. 12..The documentary also shows Reznor backstage with his band, and also Marilyn Manson and his band members who was the warmup gig for NIN on that tour back in 1994....David Bowie also pops up backstage and on stage with NIN, since they were on tour together in 1995.It puzzles me how you guys could have missed that...?!?!
What can I say it's a morbid masterpiece! Trent Reznor is one of the greatest musicians of our time and this film puts all his demented, twisted work to the fullest. To put in one word it's truly AMAZING!!!