10 stars for Surrealism!! Up there with Inland Empire!
I have no Idea how to rate this film so I'm rating it 10 for being absolutely relentlessly surreal.
I ran across this on Shudder and loved the plot description of a planet where only women can survive tied into a mother and daughter somehow being forced to hunt a vicious killer across dreamlike landscapes.
I was not prepared for a film so bizarre and fascinating in its surrealism. I can't stress enough how weird/ surreal this film is. David Lynch's Inland Empire is the only other film I've seen this insane.
However the films styles are totally different. Empire is a dark, dark film. After Blue has an almost "Dark Crystal" or "The Never Ending Story" vibe going for it (If they were rated NC-17 that is)
It opens with the setup for a plot. A group of ladies find a woman buried up to her head in sand...and start to murder her except a girl named Roxy (who goes by toxic) has mercy and digs her out. Oh and her name is Kate Bush lol.
Kate Bush is spares Roxy but murders the heck out of the other women running naked on the beach.
That's how the film starts out, and I truly doubt anyone, including the director can write a thesis on it or knows what its about.
It's not meant to be understood but experienced.
It has a lot of humor as well. For instance Roxy throughout the film masturbates A LOT (as do other characters) even once with a gun she finds in the river.
I was cracking up watching the whole time at the weirdness/randomness and everything else. With Superimposing trippy visuals and multiple characters appearing on screen all at once.
Possibly in different realities. Possibly there is only one person in the film who ate 1000 mushrooms and can't stop compulsively masturbating in a nightmare fairy land of angels and demons.
TLDR: If you love Surreal films that do not require a linear plot (or one at all) and style over substance-except there is plenty of substance- just good luck figuring out what it is
I also find it noteworthy that Roxy's mom has her own "moment" shes navigating a tunnel from a H. P Lovecraft story- terrified and shaking--she does the only thing she can do.
Drop everything folks, its masturbation time!
I ran across this on Shudder and loved the plot description of a planet where only women can survive tied into a mother and daughter somehow being forced to hunt a vicious killer across dreamlike landscapes.
I was not prepared for a film so bizarre and fascinating in its surrealism. I can't stress enough how weird/ surreal this film is. David Lynch's Inland Empire is the only other film I've seen this insane.
However the films styles are totally different. Empire is a dark, dark film. After Blue has an almost "Dark Crystal" or "The Never Ending Story" vibe going for it (If they were rated NC-17 that is)
It opens with the setup for a plot. A group of ladies find a woman buried up to her head in sand...and start to murder her except a girl named Roxy (who goes by toxic) has mercy and digs her out. Oh and her name is Kate Bush lol.
Kate Bush is spares Roxy but murders the heck out of the other women running naked on the beach.
That's how the film starts out, and I truly doubt anyone, including the director can write a thesis on it or knows what its about.
It's not meant to be understood but experienced.
It has a lot of humor as well. For instance Roxy throughout the film masturbates A LOT (as do other characters) even once with a gun she finds in the river.
I was cracking up watching the whole time at the weirdness/randomness and everything else. With Superimposing trippy visuals and multiple characters appearing on screen all at once.
Possibly in different realities. Possibly there is only one person in the film who ate 1000 mushrooms and can't stop compulsively masturbating in a nightmare fairy land of angels and demons.
TLDR: If you love Surreal films that do not require a linear plot (or one at all) and style over substance-except there is plenty of substance- just good luck figuring out what it is
I also find it noteworthy that Roxy's mom has her own "moment" shes navigating a tunnel from a H. P Lovecraft story- terrified and shaking--she does the only thing she can do.
Drop everything folks, its masturbation time!
- aob_brctor87
- Jan 2, 2024