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The Original POS

posted 10 years ago by cfinde
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Not sure why I kept watching except maybe hoping it would get better.. but instead it couldn't find an ending for itself. There is no way the film had a shooting script to start with, merely lots of poor quality black & white film to splice together incoherently. To make it even more tedious there are white subtitles against white backgrounds in at least 90 per cent of the footage. The "comedy" is nonexistent but primal screaming, wailing, bogus techniques of healing are all there to make you squirm. Imagine that in 15 consecutive minutes you see: shock therapy, scream therapy, ice skating, Stalin, a mentally ill person banging his head against a wall, a plaster cast penis & a talking head without a body!! This film has to be a joke..if you took it seriously you must be on drugs while you watched it. Pretentious, amateurish, and trust me on this--a complete waste of approx 1.5 hrs that you could have been getting some sleep. By the way, did this director sleep with the director of Night Train to Venice?

[–] FrankBooth_DeLarge 10 years ago

I watched this movie a few years ago and remember mostly hating it, aside from some of the documentary footage. I'll admit I probably didn't "get it" and it was clearly not intended for me, but I thought it was a highly pretentious film and was really turned off by it as a result. I guess I can understand why someone would like it, as a couple of my professors in film school thought it was awesome, but for me it's a movie I'll never watch again. And I'm generally willing to give a second chance to critically acclaimed movies that I didn't enjoy, but not this one.

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[–] maxmode 8 years ago

Agree.