Worst movie ever made in HISTORY

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Yep,this was one of the films I also cut my teeth on back in the day while getting into cult cinema---one great thing about the early days on VHS tapes was that you could see a lot of cult films that aren't even available now on any format at the local store. I found out about this film from the classic film book CULT MOVIES 2, by Danny Peary---never even heard of it before then. It seems to have been totally forgotten, unlike other cult classic '80's cinema. Haven't seen it since then, and it certainly made an impression on me. Here it is in all its glory on the 'Tube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1diwX-ydh0

I have not seen Liquid Sky in over 25 years now. However I still remember how I was affected by the film.

I saw it three nights in a row. The first night I was actually very disoriented by the film. But I was determined to go a second time. The next time I knew what to expect and so I was able to settle in and watch the film more closely. The third night I really enjoyed the film and began to see what I considered the point and the thread of the movie.

To me it was a movie about people trying to throw away all the rules of society. Scenes such as seeing the size of the alien space ship, (as someone said, like a hat box), allows the audience to also begin to lose their frame of reference to many assumed givens about life and societal norms.

Unknown actors, character playing two sexes,

The scenes of Manhattan, the clothes, the music, everything....just a big off center of expectation or norm or totally disturbing depending upon each individual audience member.

However you will find that virtually every character has one or two things from the old "normal" life that they cannot let go of. The one woman is actually in love with the "ideal" of her girlfriends past and not her current character.

Other comments of "apple pie on the porch" or putting drug use in the reference to how it used to me the norm for validation.

As the characters bounce like pin balls through this new world they have...and each views the world a little differently.....each clings to something from the past or outside as a mental anchor.

In order for this to get across to the audience this is done as well TO the audience. I really see virtually everyone who sees this film mentally clinging to or re enforcing everthing in their lives while watching the film.

And in a bizarre and perverse way I feel that the more most people leave the film totally confused that that is really a main point of the film. What can we let go of to view a different world as portrayed in film.

In the late 70's I lived in a building of "punk rockers" and each person felt that they were living in a new and exciting culture, yet I found that almost all of them were in reality some of the most normal people I knew. Besides dress and music they were really almost "leave it to Beaver" clean cut people.

Film may present what many consider to be alien societies but they are all anchored way to much in normal life. (It seems that 90% of all Romans and aliens have English accents in movies). And I challenge anyone to name 10 war movies that actually left you terrified and shell shocked at the end of the movie.

And to take the fact that it is by Russians experiencing not only a new country but a very small sub culture within that country and expressing the loss of so many social and physical cues about life is profound.

It is with the respect that Liquid Sky was able to create a totally sensory challenging film in so many ways was to me the true expression of brilliance.