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Although it has been mentioned by other reviewers, I will confirm that you do, indeed, get a DVD copy of the movie slipped in with this beautiful green vinyl LP, as well as the white 45rpm single with two songs that, as far as I know, are unavailable elsewhere. By far the best Christmas present I ever gave to myself.
Despite the fabulous musical phenomenon that the Flaming Lips are, the main attraction here is the movie. My only caveat, and I am quite serious about this: this film is not recommended for anyone averse to viewing female genitalia, or simulations thereof, or various fantastical constructs suggestive in appearance of female genitalia. Having said that, this is definitely not porn. There is curiously only one female character in the film, and she spends the vast majority of her screen time literally sealed alone in a plastic bubble, nor do we at any time see anything which is unambiguously suggested to be the genitalia of this specific character.
Having fulfilled my duty to convey the above warning, I am somewhat hesitant to describe the film in much detail. It is an experience unto itself which, much like a dream, cannot be adequately conveyed through narrative description.
I will say that I enjoy the great contrasts in this film, between the very quiet and the very loud, between the colorless, and the very effectively shocking moments of brilliant color, between bleak and pervasive hopelessness and the kind of ecstatic wonder and fearless faith normally reserved only for the luckiest of young children, and only in the best and most magical moments of their lives.
This film is also the kind of art that finds beauty in strange places, like a lingering shot of a glistening tear of blood creeping down a cheek from a bandaged and ruined eye.
The whole thing looks and feels home-made, because it literally is, and as such has authenticity, bravery, heart and just plain freakyness that Hollywood simply cannot understand, much less create.
This moves to the top of my list of movies that I must force everyone I know to watch every Christmas (curiously enough, edging out the MST3K treatment of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians).
The music itself (this is ostensibly a record review after all) is gloriously avant-garde noise experimentation, with a little bit of uncredited dreamy Holst choral music from Neptune snuck in (performed, not sampled). So in the vast stylistic range of the Lips, don't expect this to represent their Pop or Punk persona. This is more like listening to spacey ambient music while getting your teeth drilled, along with occasional bursts of electroshock, but I mean all of that in the best way possible.
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Michael A. Kepler
The LP version is by far your best entertainment value
2009年6月9日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Big Grizzle
maybe it's me....
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Foxboy
Do they take themselves serious?
2009年3月26日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Niki Z
Not currently streaming anywhere.
2019年1月19日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
P Willco
Get the CD/DVD for both the film and soundtrack.
2017年3月1日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
