Ben Wheatley is tormented by nightmares, overcome him in reality, terrible visions burden life. Although Benny's life is not a failure. More than a wealthy family from the upper class of society. Ben is a child from Beverly Hills, a high school student with his own basketball field, his own jeep, and a sexy girl, and what to hide from other women from Malibu Ben enjoys amazing success. In a word, life has developed, and everything will not stand. The visions, the tormented mind of the guy is to blame. Then the worms in a well-fed dinner will be ghosted, and yet, whatever disgusting mischief from unreal spheres will be cursed. And that’s it, our hero starts to hit chills, and literally lacks oxygen. The family and the attending psychiatrist are already confused, but the graduation and the first outing of Benjamin in the light of tall people is approaching, here or urgently need to do something or? Be humbled and start your own investigation of insanity.
Only the third time I was able to watch and watch this strange and debut film by Brian Yuzna as a director. A very specific movie, you seem to plunge into a world where you were inspired by the youth gums of the eighties. With all the supposed attributes like futuristic costumes of strange cut among young people. Bright bikinis at the beach beauties, eternal summer, which comes from a tape recorder the size of a cabinet table. You get it. Only the investigation here is not about missing buns or money from the school cafeteria, but quite serious things. The intrigue is about the mystery, the victims and the abductions, and the hidden truth, and it's starting to be interesting. Ben's investigation in the middle of a juicy, tanned Malibu, with everyone owed. Weird rich parents, and an emancipated sister. Find a needle that poisons the mind in a haystack. The secret behind the seven seals is securely hidden in this society. And it is real, Ben understands it, aggressively moving in the right direction, which along the way of his journey is overgrown with corpses, then with the interventions of relatives who hide something mysterious and unpleasant to the main character behind their smiles.
What did Yuzna want to say? Some kind of banter against the upper classes of the affluent Americans? Demonstrated it and shot it in their own language, with their own manner of presentation of their favorite comedy films, masking the highlight as something left in the form of a very phantasmagorical dessert for the finale.
I don't know why such a long time, Brian, would be enough and the usual hour and twenty-eight minutes. Of course, it is nice to admire the girls in bikinis from those years, and the detailed display of rich bourgeois from the suburbs of Malibu is also pleasant to watch, there are absolutely no complaints about the acting. They're for the trademark. In short, when you see Yuzn's name in the credits, you have a rough idea of what to expect. It is almost always qualitatively made special effects, and pumped suspense. Sometimes in half and a comedic atmosphere. But not that, speech, too little horror, and too much time was given to satire, too much, so much that satire just took and ate all the heat of passion, you as if the first hour watching the same summer comedy about teenagers, and the murders in it go sideways, but it is clear that everything that the director wanted to show he showed in the finale. But why then was it so stretching the film, filling it with sometimes completely unnecessary scenes? These scenes could be replaced by more detailed reincarnations as in the finale, it would not come out sideways, I am sure.
Absolutely not what I expected from the creator of the cult "Reanimator 1, 2", a completely strange satire on the rich, or Yuzna first felt himself in the chair of the director sent energy to embody the wrong moments, or vision he has such, I do not know, a strange film, useful, but completely secondary he seemed to me. You can look once, at the slippery rich likenesses of faces, and forget.
From the side of Bill Whitney's life, you'd be jealous. He lives with his family in Beverly Hills, the parents of a rich woman, a beautiful sister, he meets a blonde cheerleader and runs for class president. But the rich are moving out too. Bill's schedule also includes a visit to a therapist. He tells him about long-standing suspicions that his relatives are not. They behave strangely, as if indifferent, and smile painfully. The doctor to him, in addition to sedative speeches and pills, little can advise (grow a steam and wipe the snot!), but one day Billy through the boyfriend of sister Blanchard gets a record confirming and only exacerbating his suspicions.
Brian Yuzna, you're a powerful horror guy, but you didn't pull it out. He drowned in his slimy ambitions. It would seem that the film has a great idea, an accompanying sense of humor, the most fashionable special effects of Screaming Mad George. What could go wrong? That's it. For most of the film, Brian is pumping (primitively, but let it be), winding secrets on the spindle, worms breed in apples, people give signs of deformation, corpses multiply. All the signs are: Billy, you're out! For example, on the basis of a nervous breakdown from not meeting the expectations of their parents. They don't talk, but you can see it in their faces! “Are you going to stay behind? You're second fiddle, boy! Chicken! The brain's defense response turns on: "You're not a loser, they're not." Just others... more precisely, others!!! Sekote, right? (No, no sekut!) Fuck you, smart guy. It's just your theory. )
But no, in the climax, Yuzna still tears off the covers. Justifies our uncontrollable boy, puts on the mask of a crazy clown, and in a pathetic form gives his social satirical message that the rich anally oppress the poor, the strong pull the weak on the fist and generally cooler no business than show business, hinting at frequent getting into it through sex. A bit of surrealism will never hurt what happens, but what a thing. Why gave up these excesses with gills, ass-headed people-kukishis, what did the malleable fat zombies take up here, nay these children's fights in the middle of the wonderful paintings of Picasso and Dali? Clownade and body horror become the nails of the program, and there is no time to think about the author’s statement and his wit. Put it in your fellow director...well, where did Blanchard get dragged?
4 out of 10
Everything is decided by the human person.
Not the collective, the elite of the country, not its demos.
This wonderful film passed me by. He's such an eminent director. It always seemed to me that Mr. Yuzna has an extremely peculiar appearance, and he was simply created for sculpting in the genre of “horror” masterpieces. Those glasses, those mustaches. I still see him as the character of the song "Bad" by VIA The Tiger Lillies. Well, it's all lyrics. Let’s talk about how Brian Yuzna managed to mix in one film thrillers of all sorts, classic horror-motifs-out-of-can-tell-what-works-ibo-spoiler, social, and very black, satire, which turns into real horror, adding ideas inherent in the film “Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma”, if it removes the sick fantasies of Pasolini, and even some of the thoughts of the game Bioshock and her character – Andrew Ryan. If you know what I mean.
"I'm the fucking freak"
The main character is very ordinary, and looks strange against the background of his parents. Mother, father, sister are constantly thinking about their status, “going out into the world”, everything is beautiful and licked. Billy's very ordinary. He plays basketball, he wants to be in high school -- yes, he's not very far away, girls, hanging out. Anyway, nothing weird. But behind the family of strangeness he notices quickly, and even thinks that he
Admission. You have to be born in such a society. And Billy clearly didn't fit in.
For them, paranoia is not even a way of life, for them paranoia is a high art.
The main character starts in thinking, in experiences, and paranoia is all that is needed, although Billy says that this is not about him. While watching, it’s likely that some will begin to think that it’s very hard to be a suspicious big brother, have a mental illness, and get caught up in a cycle of mystical events. Was there an img2 boy? Maybe someone just wants Billy to know what's true and what he came up with. That's the truth William couldn't have imagined. That is why the poor guy walks around those meager facts that he left him another corpse or a random phrase that no, no, but drop his mother, which is less and less native every day. And paranoia grows through the efforts of those for whom it is a high art.
"TRUSTNO1"
And who can be trusted if the whole family is talking nonsense, the sister is not telling something, the friend jokes with rubber dolls, the classmate is too straightforward, the neighbor is too open and erotic, and her mother eats hair? It's hard for me. Yesterday there was an orgy on the tape, and today they recorded the dance, and they said that it was. There's blood, dead people, murder, and a second later, just ripped clothes in the corner of an abandoned car. Maybe William really went crazy?
Man creates. The parasite asks, "Where is my share?""
Imagine everything you know about elite societies. Secret societies. Limited Edition. Now put it in the grotesque. Then a little more. And more. It'll be like this somewhere. They are the true absorbers of the soul and will of those they consider img22 slaves. It's like being a different race, a different species. It's a case of luck. Everyone except Billy. The parasites prepared him. And they don't even have sex like humans. I can’t wait to be so close.
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Yuzna showed that the rich have their quirks. That they can afford a lot for money, and for a lot of money – infinitely much. A bold idea, absolutely naked, absolutely absurd, and at the same time vital. And "Saw" is porn.
I am not saying that the whole of society is as it is shown here, but undoubtedly a large part of it can be attributed to such. In the horror comedy Brian Yuzna, there is a very bold, albeit long-known subtext, I would even say here the director showed what is happening in some societies as easily as possible, before it is accessible and obvious that the word subtext can safely remove the prefix “under”. The implementation of the idea is really worthy of respect, everything is so disgusting and disgusting that the faint of heart will clearly not have the spirit.
The philosophy is that often the rich absorb the poor and become even richer, the “elite” layers of society simply suck all the juice from the lower and middle strata, for profit and sometimes just for fun. I don’t think anyone will deny such cases. And some sick minds, when they no longer grow richer, power and influence from which they begin to want even more, begin to sophisticate, mock others, kill, rape in order to satisfy their sick self.
Often, rules established by society, such as rules of conduct, are nothing more than a formality for achieving the real goal of copulation. Dinner, ball, dancing, elegant people in costumes with smart facial expressions, want to satisfy only their needs. This is by no means the case for everyone, but it is folly to deny that a weighty share is such.
As for the performance, it's brilliant, as I said, because it's accessible and simple, but on the other hand, not many people can stand this paranoid nonsense with vile and disgusting creatures. And the copulation scene is certainly not for the faint of heart. Of course, the film is not without drawbacks, there is a feeling that the director was confused in places and the bowl with genres was sometimes filled unevenly. Some moments look too satirical and comedic, I should have been a little more careful, for example, the head in the anus in my opinion was too much.
As a result, a rather interesting and memorable movie with an undisguised idea and meaning, far from perfect, but certainly successful.
7.5 out of 10