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2nd weirdest/incomprehensible film ever, 29 June 2003
By riffraf
It made me want to see the film. I will, in this year's Sitges Festival. No I won't. Yes I will. It's on the same time with "Serenity". I shall choose now. I don't know what to do.
Yeah, that comment was indeed funny!
share2nd weirdest? What was the weirdest?
shareYou have to read the whole comment, man.
shareIndeed, very funny. Here's the entire comment:
"My top 5: Alain Robbe-Grillet's "L'Imortelle" takes number 1 (by a landslide), and its a tie between David Lynch's Eraserhead & Blue Velvet for position 3, closely followed by Louis Buñuel's "Andalusian Dog" and Stan Brackage's "Dog Star Man" (which I would have rated number 1, except that I hated that so much I will not give it the satisfaction of being highly rated in any category!) and finally "Koyanisquatsi" which I defy any to explain or justify!
So - Last Year At Marienbad, in a nutshell, assume French Accent:
Verse 1: Man: I know you. Woman: You do not know me. Man: We were here. Woman: I was never here. Chorus: Man: Long strange monologue about the place that they are at, Marienbad. And how he has been here before and how she has been here before. Camera: panning about the ornate Marienbad mansion. Verse 2: (repeat verse 1 - add very interesting game of pick-up sticks) Chorus repeat verses 1 & 2
I think everyone should see this film. I don't know why. I have seen it numerous times. No, I have never seen it. Yes, I saw it last year! No, last year I did not see it. Yes, I saw it here, with me. Wait, I'm alone. Who am I talking to?"
Koyaanisqatsi is about the shifting of the world from a natural habitat to that of a technological habitat. When the movie starts it's centered on the geological or natural aspects of our landscapes. As the film progresses it begins to show how technology is transforming our environment. The reason they use a lot of time-lapse style photography is to relate how imperceptable this shift is when seen through our sense of shared time. If you see the dvd again there is an interview with Godfrey Regio who says all this in the bonus section of the disc.
shareThat is a funny comment.
I felt kind of crazy myself after watching this movie.
P.S. Philip Glass's music in Koyaanisqatsi is great.
Yeah Koyaanisqatsi is an incredibly simple concept film that doesn't require a great deal of thought or explanation but is very powerful in what it expresses. The movement from nature to human construction.
shareThe name "Koyaanisqatsi - life out of balance" is pretty self explanatory. And the film is simply brilliant - it really makes one think how far the modern society has become from natural rhythm of life.
shareSo - Last Year At Marienbad, in a nutshell, assume French Accent:This part of the user review it's worth quoting again! Made me laugh.
Verse 1: Man: I know you. Woman: You do not know me. Man: We were here. Woman: I was never here. Chorus: Man: Long strange monologue about the place that they are at, Marienbad. And how he has been here before and how she has been here before. Camera: panning about the ornate Marienbad mansion. Verse 2: (repeat verse 1 - add very interesting game of pick-up sticks) Chorus repeat verses 1 & 2
I think everyone should see this film. I don't know why. I have seen it numerous times. No, I have never seen it. Yes, I saw it last year! No, last year I did not see it. Yes, I saw it here, with me. Wait, I'm alone. Who am I talking to?
A bird sings and the mountain's silence deepens.share
I was going to offer an opinion but I couldn't even come close to this brilliant satirical piece - congratulations
shareI think everyone should see this film. I don't know why. I have seen it numerous times. No, I have never seen it. Yes, I saw it last year! No, last year I did not see it. Yes, I saw it here, with me. Wait, I'm alone. Who am I talking to?"Love this!! share
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coo...this day was worth living. ideas worth an honorary place on the wall of the comments' hall of fame. elusive not less than its object. kudos, riffraf.
shareI haven't seen it (I tend to have more pedestrian tastes), but an insightful friend has and loved it. From reading the user comments (a slew of really good ones, I thought), I got the sense that it dealt w/ the question of "what is reality."
Can this "natural" vs. "man-made" theme fit into that construct or am I all wet?