the good news is that i know what i want to be for next halloween. $400 to spend on leather duster and bellbottoms, about $6 for the hat...$3 worth of gigantic party store rings...
the better news is that i really liked this. no reservations. it was pretty spectacular. because i enjoy making these analogies, i'd say that it was bunuel's land without bread meets the wizard of oz...though this "meeting" doesn't satisfy my desire for the quixotic because both land without bread and wizard of oz could be seen as travelogues. maybe land without bread meets return to oz, the book, except the allegory's just as nightmareish but more dreamy--okay, land without bread meets the wizard of oz the movie meets return to oz the book meets heidegger.
i think ozma might be one of the first crushes on an illustration i ever contracted.
that has nothing to do with anything.
but seriously, i don't know what to say. it's really good. perhaps some user advice: don't expect big plot--but the plot it has delivers. don't expect serious violence--just lots of it. don't expect sympathetic portrayals of women--or men. do expect social commentary, but don't expect to be affected by it beyond a sort of surface identification and snide horror. don't expect to understand what's going on, but do allow your dream-conscious to get involved, because i think most of it goes all the way through, on the symbolic level at least. and if you're horrified by things that really oughtn't to be depicted, don't watch it (though i'd say that the candy-colored filming and the surreality keep el topo out of the realm of depicting things that shouldn't be depicted...but then again, i thought that the new sherlock holmes decently reinterpreted holmes' character).
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