"This pill serves nothing without you. It needs you"
I went into this thinking I was about to watch something similar to Repulsion (1965): a raw portray of an oppressive patriarchal society through the point of view of a harassed girl walking home alone at night. But then we realise that the girl is not the prey, she's ultimately the real predator, and that, similarly to Under the Skin (2013), she seeks preys, using everyone's twisted desires and inside evils…
"Elle n'avait pas disparue, c'est lui qui avait peur de disparaitre / She hadn't disapeared, it was him who was afraid of disapearing"
L'Etrange Couleur des Larmes de ton Corps is the kind of movie that makes you want to make movies yourself. Not because it looks easy and accessible, but precisely because it looks so creatively detailed and so insanely inventive. Watching this movie is constantly realizing that directing, editing and sound design can be done differently. It's realizing…
"He feels well, and ready to perform any tasks at all. That is the problem"
A fun short ! Also very interesting : a smart satyr of orders and the lack of self thinking in a world of alienating jobs. This man that wonders through the world searching the mysterious Sidorov, pays strangely no attention to the mysterious and wonderful universe that he crosses.
The animation is wonderful too, this surrealist style is very impressive
Un Chien Andalou isn't exactly what I would call surprising. Sure, for 1929, this feels like a revolution (in almost every aspect), but coming from surrealist masters Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, it's pretty much what I expected to see.
Our minds are made of dreams, and dreams of symbols. Understanding these symbols and recognizing them might be the most important tool to help us dive into our unconscious mind and perhaps understand a little about why we do the…
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