Clocking in at just two minute short of the arbitrary divide between short film and feature length film as designated by the IMDb, this movie is quite a feast of color and imagination constantly rolling to hallucinatory lengths. That, of course, is the point.
I didn't count, but I'm pretty sure all seven of the deadly sins are represented within this film, but there's a particular focus on gluttony and lust. Everything in this film is engorged, or seems engorged. It at first starts out a little like Puce Moment (and in fact, later a shot from Puce Moment is reused as one of the multiple exposures), but as the character we see literally consumes a pearl necklace, he's lead into what is apparently the Pleasure Dome, which is pretty much Hell filled with passion.
The pacing of this film is pretty amazing. As more and more stuff happens it just builds up, a glutton for more, causing the need for more and more, and so on. Usually fast editing and multiple exposures are used as a way of showing the deconstruction of a character, but this time the fever dream seems more of a conglomeration of More and More in an appetizing pursuit to... more.
It sounds exhausting, but is in fact actually quite pleasurable to watch. The presence of such colorful and vividly imagined characters brings it into a wonderful sort of clarity, making the whole movie tempting. It's tempting to join them in their lust, it's tempting to delve into such a realm. Which is why, at 38 minutes, it still seems like it's less than 20.
--PolarisDiB
I didn't count, but I'm pretty sure all seven of the deadly sins are represented within this film, but there's a particular focus on gluttony and lust. Everything in this film is engorged, or seems engorged. It at first starts out a little like Puce Moment (and in fact, later a shot from Puce Moment is reused as one of the multiple exposures), but as the character we see literally consumes a pearl necklace, he's lead into what is apparently the Pleasure Dome, which is pretty much Hell filled with passion.
The pacing of this film is pretty amazing. As more and more stuff happens it just builds up, a glutton for more, causing the need for more and more, and so on. Usually fast editing and multiple exposures are used as a way of showing the deconstruction of a character, but this time the fever dream seems more of a conglomeration of More and More in an appetizing pursuit to... more.
It sounds exhausting, but is in fact actually quite pleasurable to watch. The presence of such colorful and vividly imagined characters brings it into a wonderful sort of clarity, making the whole movie tempting. It's tempting to join them in their lust, it's tempting to delve into such a realm. Which is why, at 38 minutes, it still seems like it's less than 20.
--PolarisDiB