Officially the weirdest

OK, this is officially the weirdest movie I have ever seen, and that includes Liquid Sky and Forbidden Zone. I agree with some other bloggers here about acid. This is as if someone stared at Frank Frazetta Barsoom paintings for a week while dropping purple windowpane continuously and reading Zane Gray in Esperanto and playing the soundtrack from The Rocky Horror Show at peak volume along with the Trogs, the Pixies, and the Monks, and then decided to make a movie. It's a little bit Oliver!, a little bit Firefly, a little bit Triumph of the Will, and a little bit Three Penny Opera, with a whole lot of its own self bulging out in between. It's solid black and white. It reminds me of The World's Greatest Sinner, and isn't a thing like it. It's like an homage to something that hasn't been made yet, or a satire in a genre that hasn't yet been invented. And, yet, it is deadly serious. It's like it's played for laughs, but it's more noir than anything Raymond Chandler could have imagined in his deepest delirium. It's in the same class as Naked Lunch, being in no class at all. Have you seen any Marilyn Manson or Tom Waits music videos, then you might be prepared for this movie. Have a drink first. Several. Like a cheap trick in a bad part of town, it could be surprisingly worth it.