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Originally Posted by neverending
I like Cronos a lot.
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Yeah, I can see how many would - I just don't think that I was in the mood for it. So I don't think I can give it a really fair review. I DO have a lot of positive things to say about it, though.
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Originally Posted by roshiq
Lunacy (2005)
Wow! An insane portrayal of insanity that comes with little bit of Gothic & art house treatment & plenty of amazingly surreal stop motion animations! The movie's basic premise concerns how best to run a lunatic asylum…showcasing two approaches - absolute freedom versus control and punishment. And according to the Czech director Svankmajer, (who tells that at the very beginning of the film) there is a third way that manages to combine all the negative aspects of these two approaches and it is the reality we live in!
The animations cut in between scenes to help illustrate the progress of madness on screen. Crawling flesh or sometime as ‘meat puppets’, rolling eyeballs, tongues dancing in beer glasses…all in all wonderfully contributed to the grotesque, surreal & dark humor nature of the film.
Overall, a satirical and thought-provoking horror tale that I like to recommend here to PD, NE, EC, CG & V.
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Ugh ugh ugggggggggggggggggggggh - I'm sorry, Roshiq, but I couldn't get very far through this one - I found it too self-indulgent and annoying. Really turned me off. And I turned IT off after about 20 minutes in...
What I wrote about it on Netflix (about a year ago):
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Jan Svankmajer, the same director who put together the absurd yet (at least) imaginative film Alice fathers an even more self-indulgent preachy piece of experimental European faux art tripe. Attempting to channel the Marquis de Sade and give the finger to organized religion and establishment, Lunacy instead comes off condescending and pretentious. You can skip this one.
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