This film is really hallucinating and mesmerising and dizzing experience and whoever likes revenge stories, art-house heavy metal stuff and Nick Cage...well you might love it.
One aspect of the film that makes it even weirder is its really weird pacing and structure. At first it is really slow and we just meet our 2 characters and the villians and we just see a few conversations between the characters. Still, the first have is visuall stunning and has a really unique style. I was interested during the first half but I was stilll waiting for the boom!
And yes as the film goes on it becomes more action packed and feels more grand and action-packed. The second have is a love letter to stylish violence,revenge stories and the film's most dark star...Nicolas Cage. The fights are insane, the cinematography and the stylisitc presentation...just a feast for the eyes. I love ow his character gradually turns into a maniac who mournes for his oved one by smashing heads and stabbing monsters with blades.Cage's acting is of infinite praise too. Pain and madnesss become one on his gritty and bloody face and his smile...a piece of gold.
Most people criticize the film for being more style over substance...and although this isquite the case...that is not certainly bad. Style gives also soul to a film and visual stortelling is really powerful techinque for a film like that.
Also... it bight be a stylisitc extravaganza but substance is present.
As I see it,Mandy is the depiction of a ruined, unfair and corrupted society. The main antagonist believes that he is God but he is actually a piece of nothing and he feels powerful but the truth is that he is a funny minifigure wich fails at everything. The monsters in the film portray the uglyness of human nature. They are people who have become one with sin and that is why they watch porn and do drugs and look so ugly.... Their exterior is as ugly as their interior.
Our hero is a man who seeks revenge for his love's unfair and pointlsss death. He is a tragic character who fell in a black hole for no reason and he rises form his ashes and he takes his revenge even if he loses his mind during this crazy journey. This whole situation turns him mad and leads him to lose his mind. The bathroom scene is a pure depiction of his situation.
This film is nuts It is not crazy as hell. It is hell.
I mostly enjoyed it.
One aspect of the film that makes it even weirder is its really weird pacing and structure. At first it is really slow and we just meet our 2 characters and the villians and we just see a few conversations between the characters. Still, the first have is visuall stunning and has a really unique style. I was interested during the first half but I was stilll waiting for the boom!
And yes as the film goes on it becomes more action packed and feels more grand and action-packed. The second have is a love letter to stylish violence,revenge stories and the film's most dark star...Nicolas Cage. The fights are insane, the cinematography and the stylisitc presentation...just a feast for the eyes. I love ow his character gradually turns into a maniac who mournes for his oved one by smashing heads and stabbing monsters with blades.Cage's acting is of infinite praise too. Pain and madnesss become one on his gritty and bloody face and his smile...a piece of gold.
Most people criticize the film for being more style over substance...and although this isquite the case...that is not certainly bad. Style gives also soul to a film and visual stortelling is really powerful techinque for a film like that.
Also... it bight be a stylisitc extravaganza but substance is present.
As I see it,Mandy is the depiction of a ruined, unfair and corrupted society. The main antagonist believes that he is God but he is actually a piece of nothing and he feels powerful but the truth is that he is a funny minifigure wich fails at everything. The monsters in the film portray the uglyness of human nature. They are people who have become one with sin and that is why they watch porn and do drugs and look so ugly.... Their exterior is as ugly as their interior.
Our hero is a man who seeks revenge for his love's unfair and pointlsss death. He is a tragic character who fell in a black hole for no reason and he rises form his ashes and he takes his revenge even if he loses his mind during this crazy journey. This whole situation turns him mad and leads him to lose his mind. The bathroom scene is a pure depiction of his situation.
This film is nuts It is not crazy as hell. It is hell.
I mostly enjoyed it.