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Lunacy (2005)
Release Date:
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
MPAA Rating:
G
Rating Reason:
Not Rated
Genre:
Horror
Starring:
Pavel Liska, Jan Triska, Anna Geislerová, Jaroslav Dusek, Martin Huba, Pavel Nový, Stano Danciak, Jirí Krytinár, Jan Svankmajer
Written By:
Jan Svankmajer
Director:
Jan Svankmajer
Official Site:
Synopsis:
The latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer ("Little Otik") is loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allen Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In nineteenth-century France (albeit one full of deliberate anachronisms) a young man, Jean Berlot, is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. On the journey back from his mother's funeral he is invited by a Marquis he meets at lunch to spend the night in his castle. There Berlot witnesses a blasphemous orgy and a 'therapeutic' funeral. Berlot tries to flee but the Marquis insists on helping him conquer his fears and takes his guest to a surrealistic lunatic asylum where the patients have complete freedom and the staff are locked up behind bars. Described by Svankmajer himself in a prologue to the film as a "philosophical horror film," "Lunacy" combines live action and stop-motion, sex and violence, grand guignol terror and gallows humor, and a lot of animated meat.
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Spiritual Preview (Lunacy)
David Bruce
The theme in this film is indeed the exploration of freedom versus control. Marquis de Sade is perfect for the theme. His ideas have endured the test of time, probably because they are so refreshing in times of tight governmental and religious control. It often takes an outspoken person on the fringe to offset the controlling other side of things. He who represented freedom was silenced by the controlling ruling class. Government and religious oppression has never been as compelling as the ideas of the oppressed. Yes, yes, I know I will get emails from those who can not understand why I would give Marquis de Sade any form of credit at all. But I do. Unless we can allow dissent and the free flow of ideas and opinion, we can not be a free society. But more than that, the Marquis did have some thoughts worthy of your attention. Here are a few: “You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself.”--Marquis de Sade “To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”--Marquis de Sade “Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?”--Marquis de Sade “Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice.”--Marquis de Sade “Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.”--Marquis de Sade The King James Bible also has some interesting things to say about the issue of Freedom and Liberty: • found in obeying God. Genesis 3:5 Copyright © 2006 Hollywood Jesus. All rights reserved.
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