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Philosophy! Drugs! Boobs!

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (11)

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Every single one of you clicked because of the third item on the list, don’t deny it.

So Oscar and his sister Linda swear to each other that they will always stay together after the death of their parents. In a shocking cinematic twist, foster workers do not honor their childhood pledge. I’ve known enough people who loathed their siblings that just once I want someone in a film to say “I hated my sister, I’m so glad that we got sent to separate foster homes.”

In any case, they grow up, move to Tokyo, and Oscar becomes a drug dealer who dips into his own stock while Linda becomes a stripper. Hilarity definitively does not ensue. Oscar gets killed (rule 7a: it’s not a spoiler if it’s in the one-line PR-released plot synopsis and the trailer), and the rest of the film is shown from his disembodied perspective. It’s by many accounts a provocative take on life after death, a surreal mind fuck. Then there are a lot of people who’ve seen it that just think it’s shitballs retarded.

It’s a beast of a film at 2 hours and 43 minutes and is still making the film festival circuit with no announced plans yet for a wider release. It was directed by Gaspar Noé, best known for the controversial (to put it mildly) 2002 release Irreversible, which may be either a positive or a negative for the prospects of the film’s quality.


(source: Dark Horizons)









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Comments

I'm sick of trailer editing (and film editing) that seems specifically designed to spontaneously manifest epilepsy in the viewer.

maybe there is an interesting movie in there, but half way through the trailer me an my lurching equilibrium wanted out

Posted by: idleprimate at April 15, 2010 10:14 AM

I clicked for the drugs. I've already got boobs.

Posted by: DeadBessie at April 15, 2010 10:15 AM

Congratulate me! I'm 100 years old today!

Oh, and I came here for the drugs, obviously.

And I was about to write what idleprimate wrote, but he/she wrote it just fine, so I feel no need to embellish. Besides, my head hurts from watching that trailer = torture.

Posted by: , at April 15, 2010 10:30 AM

My monitor's brightness is at 100 and I still couldn't see much of anything in that but darkness.

Posted by: Todd at April 15, 2010 10:35 AM

I clicked on DeadBessie for the same reason I clicked on this post. Boobs. Now where is Sparkletits . . .

*click*

Nope

*click*

Are those boobs? Oh god. They're not. They're really not. I regret this immediately.

*click*

Zombie Porn! That's unexpected. Who would want to look at that? *glances at crotch* Well, well, well.

*bunk*

Posted by: Kballs at April 15, 2010 10:59 AM

"Philosophy," eh? I feel the pain of many an undergrad Philosophy student in school this year. It will be endlessly quoted because a) it's French, so it's deep; b) the rest of the class, and probably the professor, will not have seen it, so it's deep; and c) it may or may not make sense, so it's deep.

Yes, I studied Philosophy in the Time of The Matrix, Fight Club, and Pi. Yes, I enjoyed those movies, no they did not do a better job than Russel, Marx, Rousseau, or anyone else with half a brain.

This could be good, though, who knows?

Posted by: Estelle at April 15, 2010 1:41 PM

Gaspar Noe: Making movies out of your darkest thoughts while simultaneously trying to give you a Grand Mal siezure.

Posted by: JustBill at April 15, 2010 2:31 PM

Oof. I meant SEIZURE. Blimey.

Posted by: JustBill at April 15, 2010 2:31 PM

Hmmm ... I think I'm going to go ahead and coin the term TortureTrailer.

Get me in place in the Pajidicktionary, I am.

Yes, I spelled it with a K.

Posted by: , at April 15, 2010 8:10 PM

2 hours and 43 minutes of POV...

Half a bag of Mushies and this movie should be enough for me to commit suicide.

Posted by: DarthBrooks at April 16, 2010 12:10 AM

That actually looked pretty dope, I don't know what you pussies are complaining about. I think he called his other movie "Irreversible" because once you see it, the damage done to your psyche is...irreversible. It was also edited to induce siezures at times...those were the times it was easiest to watch. Dude bites it in the first act and spends the rest of the movie doing flyovers on his sister? Cake. Some nice shots in there I must say.

Posted by: HappyGobo at April 25, 2010 7:17 PM