This ambitious art-house paragon is an amalgam of three unrelated and stylistically individual delineations. The vignettes at hand are segmented and shuffled together in sequence(an unusual approach which exerts considerable influence at first, but becomes a tad disengaging as the isochronal pace gains momentum).
Story number one is a surreal pseudo-documentary concerning a masochistic little boy mysteriously disappearing into the sky after killing his father. It's a disturbing and very absorbing chapter with immoderately vanguard aesthetic flourishes.
The second vignette is a B/W homage to McCarthy-era science fiction cinema, pitting a doctor against a sterile middle-class American community when he is fingered as "Patient Zero" in a bizarre contagion. This segment is nicely done, though the least original of the three.
The third installment is a testosterone-fueled homoerotic love tragedy which finds two men with an uncustomary childhood history reuniting within an atavistic penal institution. This is a gripping foray into the womanless world...a hyperbolic merging of daunting nightmare and celestial daydream which is visually arresting and charged with rough sexual voltage.
POISON is certainly going to be labeled a "difficult" film by the median viewership. Regardless, it's a unique and laudable effort, and despite some minor misgivings, a fairly ingenious and nimbly executed experiment.
Underrated... 8/10
Story number one is a surreal pseudo-documentary concerning a masochistic little boy mysteriously disappearing into the sky after killing his father. It's a disturbing and very absorbing chapter with immoderately vanguard aesthetic flourishes.
The second vignette is a B/W homage to McCarthy-era science fiction cinema, pitting a doctor against a sterile middle-class American community when he is fingered as "Patient Zero" in a bizarre contagion. This segment is nicely done, though the least original of the three.
The third installment is a testosterone-fueled homoerotic love tragedy which finds two men with an uncustomary childhood history reuniting within an atavistic penal institution. This is a gripping foray into the womanless world...a hyperbolic merging of daunting nightmare and celestial daydream which is visually arresting and charged with rough sexual voltage.
POISON is certainly going to be labeled a "difficult" film by the median viewership. Regardless, it's a unique and laudable effort, and despite some minor misgivings, a fairly ingenious and nimbly executed experiment.
Underrated... 8/10