The Andrew Repasky McElhinney film, George Bataille's Story Of The Eye, is a difficult film to summarize. ItÂ’s groundbreaking in its structure especially in the world of pure art cinema. The movie is inspired by the novel, Story of the Eye which Georges Bataille released to great controversy in 1929.
The film truly has no strong structure but instead is a series of non titillating sexual events. First it takes place in a nightclub and onstage are two women in oversized top hats doing a demented...
The 03-04ish movie???!!! I got this when it came out. Come on now... This is anything but art. I get a lot of B flick/experimental/imports and I was pissed when I go this. Let's get this strait... This is the movie with a full on gay porn scene at the beginning... (and I'm no homophobe either but there's a line) ...and I think at the end there is a girl smoking a cigarette, hacking while giving some guy head?... That movie sucks... I mean it blows... hmmm, I mean, to say,"it bites back" is pretentious. In the words of the late, great Bill Hicks,"Piece of shit." To each there own but to promote this as some ground breaking film is garbage. It's not that I don't get it. Oh,... I get it.... It just sucks. It's like when art students go to some modern art exhibit where little motors drop plywood planks on the floor repetitively.... (I saw this, whew)... and say,"how cleaver." WHAT?! It's retarded. There are too many pseudo art fags out there who think provocative, shocking and meaningless abstraction means art. I just wanted to say my piece and this is just an opinion but feel free to mail me when you see it and tell me what you thought.
p.s. I'm not trying to be an asshole... Really, this movie is crap. This is an old post, I know.. but it popped up on the bottom of my page (JUST NOW) and I couldn't resist.
Missy
SUICIDEGIRL
California, USA
JAN 07, 2005 06:00 AM