SWEET MOVIE **

The filmmaker Dusan Makajevev is one of the notable figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave , a movement critical , pessimistic and most incendiary of 60 - 70s. His film Wilhelm Reich - Mysteries of the body, probably the flagship of its kind, was forced into a prolonged exile until 1988 and the fall of the regime. Three years later (1974), Sweet Movie, shot including Canada, but also in France and West Germany , thwarts new censorship like its predecessor, it is banned in many countries for its nature scenes sexual and violent.

Film dissident

Two major areas in Sweet Movie : one in the U.S., second to Paris , ideal for the most total disinhibition , as everyone is presumed to know. A Miss Canada performed by Carole Laure ( the role will continue , including the final scene of chocolate bath) is elevated to Miss World after examining her hymen by a billionaire, and some will see this as a premonition of reality show obscene. He approaches the elected but his face intrusive manners , she fled to France, another place of fantastic adventures or servages not saying their name, it depends.

The premise of Sweet Movie : show but claim parody. Finally, remove the mask and assume ! There are a hundred thousand ways to say, this one is the most direct : Sweet Movie behind social or ideological denunciations to practice experimentation trash. This mask is disturbing in this context because it is a convenience for the regression piling infantile provocations pushed to completion.

Sweet Movie is a pure film hippie, libidinal cross was tolerant than logorrhea, in this context, its nature general mess is consistent because it is an expression of courage and victory of his impulses , against all formal oppression browsing minds. He also repeats the slogans of 68 (" realistically ( peers) demand the impossible ") and simultaneously denounced communism misguided to fallen ideal (the Communists from the outset seen Mekevejev an enemy, reason), and liberal capitalism, maintaining a parallel with the two, as each interacts with the triumph of the trivial, both collector, promoter and initiator. Overall, it fits in perfectly with the atmosphere of the 70s, both wild and desperate, aggressive and exalted : in all cases, or transgressive protesters, and particularly marked by sexual liberation generating specimens without equal in depravity or taste of scandal.

A shameless movie

After the first half hour , the film in complete abandonment and rotating in the field degenerate with blasphemy to all floors to dispel the little Catholic girl imported. Mekevejev dedicated to a rise in non-conformity and anti- obsessive control. It is also a rejection of idealism and aspiration to truth .

The sequence table, where the characters spit on or puff like pigs , reflects this inability to move beyond the dissipated child, which is the climax in the most crass vulgarity and spontaneous , but also the rejection of this comes as the inner inspiration external regulations. This is a link to the object and impulsive sensualist , hating anything that might make sense.

The dissent in the common morality is ultimately to accumulate as non- governmental animals, as vain and stupid as defined exclusively by the external object and the most obvious heaviness of the human condition children.

This is not a rebellion. It is a refusal to leave the native layer and symbiotic liquid within which we could float near the droppings of all kinds while being deprived of ourselves, simple balls of flesh and manufactures festering dung in the harmony and omnipotence of unconsciousness exalted .

It is what it is these hippies : zombies, but zombies libertarians. Sweet Movie explicitly reveals this focus on the childish stage with an entire sequence where a man is considered and pampered like a baby. The attitude of the "liberated " troupe (though chained to the fat they love and trying Mekevejev which believes find the final release ) contributes to situations evoking Salo and effectively , posture libertarian hippie uncompromising to suit anarcho -communist led to the same fascination and practices as cherished in secret by the fascist left to their pathetic and farcical instincts - but these had a scent and not a monstrous sensuality normal , they were adults adults too .

Film shit

These coarse critical postures, removable in an instant, are the putrid lures a dissident who has chosen the path he attributes to its theoretical enemies ( the alienation of capitalist and communist models) introducing pictures the Katyn massacre (item Godwin just ) in the middle of eroticism putassier this filthy cartoon character truiste and pathetically pedantic . Makavejev wanted to paddle , at best , he accepts and welcomes the disintegration because the temptation of evaporation is the strongest ... and maybe even one that motivated all his fights.

This is the silly prose , registering outrageously , even with a competitive spirit in the provocation, in the tradition of renunciation to any affection for man and civilization, cherished pests of all kinds. The Taste of Chaos is a natural thing , it is also involved in building works of art free from all limitations. But celebrate this trend, mimicking the worst ironic reflection to better afford to embrace , it is that after a dream of the most feverish minds. Sweet Movie may be anti -capitalist and anti -communist , he is especially true, anti -fascist , because everything he perceives as standard is an alienation , so one -ism ( and fascism is most heinous of -ism ), while the love of the wildest impulses and outweighs any other form of reality. The only fascist tolerate it , the animal growl , he wears high , as if it was the revelation of the men in their authenticity. He restores the divine , which is never to be a sensory and childish. Shitting in the boots with a natural delight.

But as fascism , it does not support the objection, the emergence of consciousness in its difference, it does not try to pursue an ideal or an order, but it is yet to say so crazy and illuminated , the fullness of one, in fascism , the one hugging mass power , in which against fascism , anarchism is not to exceed fascism in his delirium , the transient impulses while hugging each their being.

Freedom, your name so quickly overused

Sweet Movie is therefore based on an ambivalence regarding any and especially adheres ultimately that it presents , flirting with the spirit " puffery " and " no-limit " Jodorowsky (El Topo , The Holy Mountain ) without having engineering or even less creativity - unless the accumulation of the primary functions of beings is a bang . If it is, it is the intensity and rawness of the performances, because here coprophilia , the émotophilie ( paraphilia vomiting ) and pornography are not necessarily simulated.

Its deadly or immoral excesses , Sweet Movie sabotages his claim nihilistic ( he wants to proclaim " this is what we are pure machines look good in background " ), but his challenge fails because it advocates , under the conviction of human demise , the ideal of absolute and hardcore debauchery ( forsake the will or desires of skeptics ), and at the same time , the chips away showing its inevitable outcome : death, operation, aberration , and finally , most importantly, the most uncompromising disposition . Sweet Movie is this honesty and Mekevejev this patient posture, however, it would all combine ( the release and background about the trial of ideologies for their consequences, but the love of degeneration they contain or accompany ) or the clever calculation is that more obvious . One could even say that Mekevejev , exasperated , decided to make a martyr of his critics by showing the most insolent possible, and again , we come back to retreat to the status of scruffy kid very happy to expose his contempt for the authority and his affection for the free release of sandbox.

It is a beautiful testimony to the absolutist anti- conformism , seen from the inside , with acuity and truth, but also with complicity , in the positive sense, decide that a narrow life, we prefer most stimulating smolder exalted and instinctive , in the negative sense, is choosing the degradation and wear all contempt of all virtue and instinctual initiative, including antisocial or grotesque, the rank of sublime revelation , under the pretext of the only law : our unfettered authenticity and value only , tolerate no standard anything , not even by chance we could talk .

And this is where the film finds some consistency , at least in the demo , because when claiming his libertine communists and sing traditional songs of the school of thought , it is ultimately the service (in addition to their passions - in essence, Mekevejev accuses them of being like any other and as it is, but with socialist pretensions ) a small microcosm of rich people ( the black who lives near them through their rents , the Paris community recovers to be given to the location). And like them, the rich ( billionaires start and show the Miss) do not accept any principle except that the rejection of reason, they chase conventions or beliefs and condemn those who would join them once they are ready to drowned a young girl aspiring to marry and regretting that thought does not occupy space more . In this way the film shows how the nightmarish doubly subversive influence of those whose purpose is to sabotage and destroy what does not fit their cynicism and their sense of idleness and loud vulgarity. For those fortunate or progressive illuminated régressistes , psychiatry is also one of the few references to value and they use this institution to correct cohorts victims sometimes see the acceptance claim , sometimes into unconsciousness in their eyes, all determinism , codes, traces of the past , traditions or any attachments . Here , specifically, Sweet Movie is really brave. At the same time , he raves this mentality may Mekevejev , tired of fighting against the moral and communist Yugoslavia 's order, he is tempted by the most expeditious demons. In any case, this disregard for human material , since it does not accept the animal and petty party is granted, or at least an attraction exerted on it , which considering that Sweet Movie , is experienced in the joy.

Heavy expérience, borderline, especially failed

On the one hand , we are satisfied that this film is because he signed the possibility for anything to be given birth and presented , and this is because it contains all the daring and all the failures that cinema is a receptacle located the entirety of which arises in the mind and human experience. However, the eagerness of censorship appears admissible , of course, it is great at a time ( the 70s ) everything was allowed and it must not despair , it will be new and generally applicable. However, this opportunity serves only debauchery of childish experimentation that seem to emanate injunctions scatophile a child can not be justified and cheered on the principle of " free expression." The film is so much the better. But this is crap . And it shows , by its subject as its motivation, that freedom can only be put at the service of destruction , the accusing fingers pointing with a virulent penauderie obvious enemies may be the loincloth of a religion the degeneration and all mediocrities . Moreover, without feed their charge , worse , turning a free spill or pictorial representations, for the purists , setting critical abyss .

As a busy crying : all this is "optimistic tragedy." Basically, Sweet Movie is the uppercut a jaded mind building a tent on the ruins of his own cowardice . At least he has everything it takes to get noticed and be remembered in memory . Then we say that it is fortunate , since otherwise it was very empty and elsewhere remains totally hollow . But he did it, we keep an annoyance or a memory dumbfounded , it may even be charmed or disgusted in any case , yes, hard to miss .

Overall Rating 45