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Dušan MakavejevScenariusz:
Dušan MakavejevObsada:
Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidović, Jagoda Kaloper, Zoran Radmilovic, Jim Buckley, Jackie Curtis, Mao Zedong (m.a.), Tuli Kupferberg, Miodrag Andric (więcej)Opisy(1)
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of Communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Duan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation of the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl's sexual liberation. Banned upon its release in the director's homeland, the art-house smash WR is both whimsical and bold in its blending of politics and sexuality. (oficjalny tekst dystrybutora)
(więcej)Recenzje (2)
You can’t use the M16 submachine to masturbate, and even the red fascist Stalin is not particularly inclined toward sexual love (perhaps except for the release of ecstasy in an unconditional act of submission to the state and the party). Another way to look at it is that the paths to liberation through orgasm and free love are bumpy - in the West, you'll be destroyed by the prefabricated identity of advertising patterns, bourgeois prejudices, or an army killing in the name of peace; in the East, you'll be swept up by the bureaucratic state party, often leaning on no less bourgeois prejudices (in this regard, it's interesting how much Makavejev reproduces the traditional Yugoslav thesis of self-governing socialism in opposition to the ossified bureaucratic state capitalism of the Soviet Union, as Tito's socialism did since the rupture in 1948). The deliberately humorous but also (at least within the framework of the film) sincerely conceived belief in the victory of the sexual revolution and its positive consequences will have to pave its way both through federal American prisons and through the unwillingness of Vladimir Lenin. However, from the perspective of a 21st-century viewer, the bet that was made on playing this card seems odd: leaving aside the unsuccessful East, the West turned sex into something quite different from a means of emancipation, i.e., into one of its other commercial products, a means of spectacle through which the totality of the advertising-industrial complex prescribes correct behavioral and consumption patterns to its consumers. The individual and their orgasm thus cannot soar freely this time either. A film-documentary-essay-collage.
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Interesting mix of documentary, drama film, experimental film, and traditionally shot film, but also biography, political propaganda, and a film that in a certain way captures the time. This simply must be seen in order for a person to take something from such a film. It definitely captured my attention, but it certainly isn't for everyone.
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