guy maddin films are strange and fascinating to watch. mukul has downloaded some of his short films and i saw two of them today. i had also seen part of ‘the saddest music in the world’ earlier and was completely stunned by the visual style and the thoroughly strange story - a beer baroness with a glass leg filled with beer holds a music competition in depression era winnipeg to find the saddest music in the world. her ex-lover who was responsible for her leg being cut and his two rival sons from different parts of the world are competing. somewhere in there the movie managed to touch upon complicated ideas concerning nationhood and war, sexuality and identity- or maybe these themes were completely imagined by me- its very possible. anyway, as a film it was all very strange but brilliant.
the two short films i saw today were hilarious and also very odd. the first was called ‘sissy boy slap party’ and consisted of lots of young men slapping each other as on older man goes on an errand to buy condoms. the other was ‘the heart of the world’ where a love triangle between two brothers vying for the same woman is intertwined with the last days of the earth as it gets a heart attack. i don’t know whetheri understood the intent of either but i was taken in by the black and white, grainy, fast editing and the wild clever imagery. all probably very pretentious but definitely very interesting.
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what strange films you watch
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