Flesh

I saw this movie at Stockholm filmfestival before Kiss kiss bang bang. The director of the short film was there and he really seemed quite nervous that his film wouldn't get well received. A fear which was legitimate.

This is really not a good short film. The filmmakers are trying to make a statement which we really all know and to do this statement they use explicit photo of naked girls touching themselves and each other, projected on buildings in a fictitious New York city. It is all too obvious what they are trying to say and they could have done it in a much more subtle way. The reason it doesn't get 1/10 is that the animation actually is quite good.

A noble idea served by pure pornography. A violent one , making entire project awful. For me, the first minutes are just disgusting . Because it is only a mix of teen erotic fantaisies , in grotesque way, proposing, in fact , nothing, using 9/11 as pretext. Sure, the basic purpose was to propose a manifesto against consumerism. But the result is just poor. And terrible .

This short film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. The Director didn't bother to come to the screening, we understood once the film began just why a director would avoid his audience entirely. The film is pornographic. Flesh raises some great questions and I think opens a good dialog. The standard rhetoric of liberals that 9/11 happened because we abused World economic relationships, and of Concervatives that "they hate our success" is not what this film is about.

I believe the filmmaker suggests that the conflict that Muslim Fundamentalists have with Western culture is that we treat and portray women in a sexually objective manner that reduces them to lesbian porno fantasies. I think this idea is a powerful one that should be discussed, we might change some of the great societal problems that independent filmmakers claim to exist to combat.

Unfortunately the sexual content of this movie becomes offensive within the first 10 seconds of the film. It is stylistically well done, but it wreaks of a great idea implemented so poorly that no one will ever see or hear about it.

I wish that we could open a dialog about the sexual objectification of women in western culture without being dismissed as Neo-Feminists, this film tried to open a dialog but foolishly fell victim to its own distasteful sexual imagery.

This film was the best edited, most well intended, complete piece of crap I saw at Sundance.