4/10
What even is the correct title of this film?
19 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Guitars were warped during the making of this film (the barn was cold as ****, you can see the actors breath like plumes of chernobyl smoke. The guitar shredding scene at the barn contains one of the most bizarre one-shots I have ever seen: Atreyu is setting up his guitar, turning on his amp to show off. Dumar (played by Paul Coufos, also in Chopping Mall) during this guitar set up, walks over to a draped makeshift latrine, enters, relieves himself (in 18 seconds or so) and walks back and sits down. Atreyu never told him there was a bathroom there. IMDB calls this "To Die, To Sleep", but the VHS box I have is callin this "Mortal Danger".

This movie verges on being a musical, theres a guy who sings 4 or 5 times with a wicked vocal vibrato, like someone is singing and tapping the underside of their throat rapidly.

This movie is a dismal, beautiful and indulgent meandering through suicide. Yeah, they went for the heaviest subject material and ended up making a reverse cohen bros cult classic. Don't get me wrong, its a tough watch, but if you're able to cringe through the discomfort, the reward is a bizarre draped-latrine-makeshift-bathroom scene that will have you breaking your vcr from rewinding over and over and over again to try to make sense of the pacing, asymmetry, and biorhythms. DUUUUUUUUDE, if youre lucky enough to find a print of this toke up and get ready to scratch your head.

This may have been the cultural zeitgeist that led to Eternal sunshine and other movies like that. What else can I say, I'm thankful this film was made and I owe a debt of gratitude to everyone who helped make this.
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