A Sweet Movie Review - The Holy Mountain

Usually I like to beat around the bush a bit, but let's dive right in.

This movie makes no sense!

In the future, if I come across an incoherent piece of film, I'm gonna rate it based on, "This is crap, but does it at least make more sense than The Holy Mountain?" Talk about a lame streak of movies. First Sweet Movie, then Emmanuelle, now this? It says a lot when the best movie I've seen in the last month has been Caligula.

You don't want to know what he's gonna do with that fist.

So what to make of The Holy Mountain? I'm hoping I can do this without writing a novel, because there is a lot to talk about. More important than the words will be the pictures...

A Sweet Movie Review - Emmanuelle

In the time I've had a Netflix account, I've had a varying degree of emotions towards the movies I've chosen. I'm very happy I chose to see The Godfather. I was pleasantly surprised by Collateral. I was disappointed by Silence of the Lambs. I was mildly embarrassed for renting Havoc. I was bored to tears by Half Nelson (which I sent back half-watched.  I didn't even bother to rewind).

There have also been plenty of WTF moments, where I wonder why the hell I rented this movie, and why am I insisting on finishing it? Such was the case with my recent viewing of Sweet Movie, which you've already read about (unless you haven't). But for the first time, I actually feel ashamed with my choice of Netflix flick. I really wish I could have recognized at the beginning of this film that the feeling I was having was not just plain bewilderment... it was my brain warning me not to continue.

A Sweet Movie Review... of Sweet Movie

So I just finished watching a movie, and before I look it up at IMDB or Wikipedia to figure out what the fuck I actually just saw, I want to try to make some sense of it.

Looks promising, doesn't it?

It's called Sweet Movie, it was made in 1968 (released in 1974), and it's an art film. Anyone even loosely interested in film should have an idea what a trip this movie is just on that information alone. The only way I can make sense of the movie's story is to say it takes place on two separate planes of existence. In one, we follow an unfortunate young girl on the most unerotic sexual bender in history. In the other, we are in Russia on a boat filled with sugar as the insane captain collects children to molest and murder. At least that's what I think was supposed to be happening. I'm not sure if these events take place during the same time period or even on the same planet, and the stories never intersect.

I have this blog

The canned theme for this blog is called Awesome.inc obviously. I won't be posting here often, but I have some stuff I'd love to have a place to put, and my livejournal is kinda crusty. So here it will go.