Monday, January 7, 2013

Sweet Movie (1974, Dusan Makavejev)

 
It's hard to sum up my sentiments when dealing with avant-garde material of this particularly mystifying stature. "Sweet Movie" is a boggling perlustration into many taboo's and fetishistic perversions, all thrown together with no real 'narrative'.

What basically happens is: a woman wins a televised 'virgin contest' by having the best looking hymen which leads her to marry an obnoxious tycoon with a golden cock that she doesn't like, as it turns out. Divorcing him doesn't seem to be an option so some insanely muscular black guy carries her into a milk bottle-shaped tower where, I assumed, he lived. She jerks him off and he stuffs her into a suitcase and she's shipped out where she meets up with a Mexican singer who gets his dick stuck in her. With the help of a restaurant kitchen staff, they are separated, one thing leads to another, and she finds herself amidst a clan of disgusting whackjobs who enjoy chopping up fake dicks, being treated like babies and puking at the dinner table... among other things. The film closes out with the woman stripping down, being coated in chocolate and rolling around, seductively...

Yeah, I don't know what the fuck was going on, but I'm usually attracted to this type of deviant, bizarre, "arthouse" -style shit. The movie is packed with strange and repulsive stuff that may bother some casual viewers - such as piss and scat related material and ambivalent pedophilia. Overall, "Sweet Movie" is a tough one for me to express an opinion toward, due to the completely anarchistic, non-linear structure and balls-out weirdness that derails any coherent 'plot' that could've taken place. If you're into Alejandro Jodorowsky's or Pier Paolo Pasolini's films, than this might interest you.

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