Ok just watched the stupid dopey thing for the first time since I was a kid.
Let me tell you, the star child embryo baby thing you see right at the end, right at the very end, it reminded me very much of late 1996. My college roommate, a fine arts student, had fashioned an embryo from foam. Then made a transparent sphere to encase it, somehow finding the two hemispheres of plastic, around seven inches in diameter each. So he puts the embryo inside the plastic hemispheres and glues them together, making a kind of star child possibly inspired by that movie or God knows what.
And then, the son of a bitch, this isn't enough for him, and this is the genius of the man, before he seals the two plastic hemispheres together, from God knows where, he procures little maggot cocoons and with supreme confidence and pride, this bastard seals up his plastic hemispheres with his self made foam embryo inside, and sure enough those maggot cocoons spawn their little larvae and that foetus is covered in real live flies buzzing all around it. I mean they only survived a few days but the thing was an absolute hit at his fine arts academy. That guy was always into something. Some of his art struck me as ridiculous or pompous, pretentious, but lord how I loved his flies foetus star child thing.
The movie was okay but I mean there's a lot of dopey artsy stuff I didn't like, same as my roommate's stuff. Although clearly he was an artistic guy. Definitely every scene with Hal is a total winner and all that drama. It's a nice movie. Just noone had any clue people would be addicted to their phones in 2021 and wearing facemasks everywhere for no reason. And looking at screens all day. Nietzsche did predict the 'last man's before the ubermensch.
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