I had a private showing of this the other day and I enjoyed it!! So many people said it was too weird and they couldn’t understand it, but I don’t think we’re meant to “get” everything. 3/5 from me too
Bog bodies are real. Many of them are from the Iron Age in areas like Denmark. Some peat bogs are highly acidic and anaerobic and those conditions help create the mummification and the dissolution of the bones.
This sounds like allegory + Guy Debord + Baudrillard; and those onanistic bog bodies sound very much like symbols of the returned repressed/Repressed and the Uncanny. Intriguing review; makes me want to see the film in ways the trailer did not (the trailer turned me off, actually). So thank you again for the thoughtful review which sparked curiosity anew. As for Roy Dupuis: his little cameo as the droll narc detective in Denys Arcand’s savage “Les Invasions barbares” (2003) comes to mind, and his 20 hours of francophone smouldering on TV in “Les Filles de Caleb” in the early 1990s . . . Yummy yum yum, to quote Maggie Smith in “Gosford Park”.
I think Romero would have gotten a kick out of this going by your review. He had that fun mix of expressing his political statements into horror. I got to spend some time talking with him at a con shortly before he died. He was very witty and intelligent. I'll check this out. Thanks guys!
The longer you talked about the movie, the more I was like "damn, this sounds really random and weird, I'm not sure I want to see it". THEN you reached the "ejaculate puts out the fire" portion and I was 💀⚰️ 🪦
saw this at LFF followed by a Q&A with the directors and Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance - one thing they said was that they weren't basing the leaders on particular real life ones, like they wrote it before 'Sleepy Joe' became a thing, and Blanchett wasn't supposed to be Merkel also Dance insisted that if anybody asked about his accent, they had to explain it was their idea, and not that Dance couldn't or wouldn't do an American accent
Appreciate the review. Just got out of it. And idk how else to feel other than disappointed. “Under-baked” was the key word. A satire that couldn’t tell a story and at best had chuckles but no real laughs. A real shame this couldn’t have been more.
There's an old episode of the outer limits TV show that was about a giant alien brain that held people captive in a old house in order to study them. This movie seems to take that premise and extends it past it's novelty.
I saw this not knowing anything...and....it left me wondering if I fell asleep and dreamed the whole thing. It has a way of fading like a bad nightmare...that cost 15 bucks.
2:05 So... is this the G7-inspired, short-list cast for Ruth Paul's Global🌏All Stars 2? Germany🇧🇪, US🇺🇲, UK🇬🇧, Japan🇯🇵, France🇫🇷, Italy🇮🇹, and Canada🇨🇦?!?! Oh my!! 😮🎉
I watched this and it became obvious to me that the entire plot of the film was based on that old concept of "if you gave LSD or Shrooms to all the major world leaders, that they'd be able to, and want to suddenly stop all the insanity. Such as ending all wars and pollution." And so the plot is that some group of activists hatched a plan to do just that for the world leaders... OR, they put a MEGATON of acid in the water supply. And dosed the world/area they live in. Which seems almost more likely because, if they did only dose the leaders, than they would have had to get rid of their entire security teams. Which must be vast. So, at the very least... The whole area was probably heavily dosed. Making everyone run off on their own vision quest. But it was too obvious for that to be a revealed plot twist at the end. Everything they were doing was indicative of someone tripping balls in nature and having no idea that is happening to them. Starting with the Canadian guy. Then hitting them all, shortly afterwards. By the time they find the woman who won't stop speaking Swedish and the big brain, the dialogue becomes incredibly obvious. It was ok as a film. But i would have preferred a big reveal at the end. And a little more hallucinations that weren't retold in second hand flashbacks. But a cool concept regardless.
I was hoping you two would review this- I keep getting adverts for this on RU-vid and was confused if this was an advert for a movie or a student film meets buy my amazon book selling scheme ad.
After your review: I might still watch it. It does sound fun. I've felt like a lot of movies in the last decade or so have been half-baked, unfinished, rushed or is it just me? I like film, but I'm not exactly a film buff so I don't know. The fire makes me think of early human evolution. The control of fire was allegedly what jump started our progress, and the bodies extinguishing the flame with their seed makes me think the "seed" represents us. We're no longer productive in a way that progresses us. And the woman setting the fire on the big brain makes me think of AI or computers getting their "fire" moment. Sounds like ol' fashioned Darwinism.
