I decided to make a list of the most trippy and nonsensical films I had on my list to watch throughout August.
I started watching this film years ago but never finished it so I thought it was a good place to start. I quite like Tim Burton’s films and the stories and characters are usually complex, so I had high hopes.
For the most part, I wasn’t disappointed. Obviously, I know they put him on the water bed for comedy in our world but as for the characters in the film, why would they be that stupid? They don’t know they’re in a film. What’s the point? It’s not like they had nowhere to put him.
A big thing that stuck out to me was the whole sexual assault thing with Joyce. She assaulted him but turned around to make herself look like the victim. It was sick and is a good explanation of why male survivors of sexual assault are stigmatised - people don’t take them seriously for all manner of reasons. I think people should be talking about that more because I had no idea that that was even a part of the film.
Just like Edward Scissorhands, I started watching this one a long time ago as well but I was too uncomfortable with all the sex scenes back then to complete it.
After watching it in its entirety now I’m older was a satisfying experience. It’s a thrilling story of a woman finding her own individuality and experiencing how horrors and wonders of the world, along with dealing with misogyny and controlling men in her life. Each of the men in this film are so different, yet they all seek to influence Bella in their own ways. Even Harry admitted that he wanted to hurt her and break down her spirit. And even Max had his faults.
Personally, I think they should’ve killed the general instead of replacing his brain with that of a goat’s, but I suppose we are not only our bodies but we are our brains. So I suppose the goat has a cool new bod with opposable thumbs now.
The scenery and aesthetic was odd in a good way and I liked they they changed from black and white to colour maybe an hour in or so.
I can’t lie, I only picked this film because it has Hugh Grant. It doesn’t have many positive reviews but I decided to keep it on my list because I need to be exposed to all types of cinema: the good and the bad.
I don’t really know what this film was about even after watching it because it was so goddamn boring and there was no obvious plot and the characters were annoying and the acting was ASS, bro. Genuinely ASS. I’m an ass man but seeing that much in one film made me want to put a bullet in my mouth /hj
I didn’t even get what was so surreal about it. I know that some guy is supposed to be controlling someone’s dreams but there was too much of a focus on these neo-nazis trying to kill Hugh Grant to really focus on any of the cool fantasy stuff. This is probably one of Hugh Grant’s worst acting performances; it’s the worst one I’ve seen so far. And I KNOW that man can act, so why was it so bad in this one?
This film’s aesthetic is so cool. Literally awesome, and because I’m not American, I don’t use that word lightly /hj
I heard someone somewhere say that there is no plot and it’s just an art film, but I don’t think so. Yes there are all these wacky environments and characters and effects, but at its core, it’s a sweet love story. A man falls in love with a younger version of an old woman and tries to make sure her story is heard, but people try to kill him to keep her life a secret.
Besides that, it’s a brilliant take on capitalism and government control. The world that Strawberry Mansion is set in has the government taxing people’s literal dreams. They record them and send them off on the computer, and people come round to look at their dreams, too. And there are advertisements put into their dreams! And it’s so blatant, too, but they want to keep it all under wraps. There’s the use of a specific metaphor for one of the characters who gets a wolf head once the main guy is asleep because he’s a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” - acting nice but then literally attempting to kill him. Honestly, I wish I could watch this film for the first time again.
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more visually stunning film before. I know that Strawberry Mansion was gorgeous, but this film is more refined and poetic in its beauty. Which makes sense as it’s about an Armenian poet, Sayat-Nova.
I think this film requires a bit of extra research to understand it fully. Which I don’t mind, because I quite like researching things. Especially in film.
The Color of Pomegranates requires a lot of thought to truly enjoy and understand it. There’s a lot of deep cultural and religious imagery and symbolism throughout. Every scene looks like a painting. This is what I imagine a poet’s mind would look like, what they would describe their life as. I know this will sound rude, but I genuinely believe that people who dislike this film are plain stupid. As in this film asks you to think and they refuse to.
Please go watch this film.
I know farts a cliché in comedy, but the opening scene is fucking hilarious.
I wasn’t expecting this to be such a profound film on life and friendship. I was still confused whether Manny was actually a living corpse or if it was just Hank’s imagination.
I don’t really know how to describe this film. It was simply beautiful in a very strange way. There was a whole plot about Hank convincing Manny that he was in love with Sarah, but the main focus was on their friendship and that was refreshing. It was such a pure friendship, too. Hank teaching Manny about life because he’s dead, and then Manny saving Hank’s life by fully reanimating himself. I like to think that from the literal power of pure friendship, he came back. Because of his other powers were normal for a corpse.
At the same time, I think the writers were probably tripping on something as they were making the script for this.
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Just plain weird. Though I liked the setting - very old fashioned and surreal.
The character designs were creepy. I didn’t quite get the main plot at first, but the relationship between One and Miette was very sweet. Found family is the main trope in this film, along with grappling with mortality and bloodlines. Each of the characters have their own side plot and backstories that were complex and thought out.
The main villain was trying to be young again because his lack of dreams caused him to age, so he kidnapped children and tried to give them good dreams so he could I steal them and become young again. Only, he kept giving them nightmares so it didn’t work.
The clones struggled with figuring out which of them was the original and why they were all created. The mum just wanted her children to be happy. And then I think the dad/inventor was trying to blow up the tower they were all living in? I can’t lie, I was bored a little bit and was mainly focused on One and Miette - whenever they weren’t on screen, I lost focus.
