Review of Lunacy (2005) by Paul C — 23 Feb 2010
This movie gets a high score from me not because the moral of the story or something like that, but because it was an achingly surreal, nightmarish acid trip that made me dizzy the whole way through, yet there was something hypnotic about the story and all the meat's stop motion-parade (it represents the flesh, all human's sins and lust) that kept me watching it from beginning til the end.
I know this is Svankmajer, yet maybe because I was expecting for a movie like Otik, so it struck me in a totally different way. Yes, if you could imagine a movie that succeed to make you feel dizzy, this is it.
A phantasmagorical political commentary, how to rule, in this case an asylum, with dictatorial or a more libertine-ian way, but both will end the same if the leader is lunatic. Patient viewers will be rewarded with an overall depressing and (again) nightmarish and totally offbeat ending.
This review of Lunacy (2005) was written by Paul C on 23 Feb 2010.
Lunacy has generally received positive reviews.
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