michael haneke: the seventh continent.
you have no idea.
you don't need gore--particularly not movie-gore--to be disturbing.
theatrical violence is not disturbing--it's dance with pyrotechnics. it's either well done or it's not.
most american horror films assume that you are stupid and need to be told how to react--pay attention to the music sometime in one of these "disturbing" gore-fests.
i don't find films that patronize me to be disturbing.
i find them irritating, generally.
i think that mi'ike's work is brilliant and audition really unsettling, but mostly because i hate hate hate needles.
but visitor q is just as curious.
he's a really interesting director.
chan-wook park's films are in some ways cooler and creepier--you can see one of his shorts and something by mi'ike side by side in "3 asian extremes"...
alot of korean horror films are more interesting to me than american equivalents because they play with the viewpoint as a way of turning the action/violence back onto the viewer---if you can't quite determine the place from which you are watching the action, there are more possibilities for implicating you in it.
"henry portrait of a serial killer" blows most of the devices that american horror films rely on, and is both very cool and creepy for it. but you have to watch henry as a game to see how it messes with you.
but none of these fucked me up quite the way seventh continent did.
dont read any plot summaries--just get the film, put it in your player and watch it.
you have no idea.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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