User:Philippe on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:08:08 +0000
Remarkable. I lack words to share my feelings --- yes, I am not fluent in English :-). This is avant-garde, even by today's standards, and I suspect it was felt to be erotic at the time it was shot. Be sure to know at least a little of the story of Lot from the Bible before you see this film.
User:Philippe on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:08:08 +0000
Remarkable. I lack words to share my feelings --- yes, I am not fluent in English :-). This is avant-garde, even by today's standards, and I suspect it was felt to be erotic at the time it was shot. Be sure to know at least a little of the story of Lot from the Bible before you see this film.
User:flyblownghoul on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:10:37 +0000
This is a remarkable avante garde film from 1933. Expressionistic shadows and multiple super exposures create an experience which, by todays standards may look a little film schoolish, but at the time was innovative and shocking. It still, in spite of occasional cliches, remains a beautiful and affecting film. The story is one of the most perverse in the bible, in which two angels come to Lot's house in Sodom. Lot's lusty sodomite neighbors surround his house and demand the beautiful men be sent out so they can be raped. Lot, unwilling to allow the abuse of these guests of his house, looks to heaven and is told, "Withold not even thy daughters.", so he offers his virgin daughters to the mob instead, and tells them to do with the girls as they see fit. The angels save the day, however, blinding the rapists so they can't find the door. Evidently, Lot's offering his daughters up for rape is not a big deal to God because he still considers Lot righteous enough to be saved, along with Lot's entire family, except of course, his wife who is turned to a piller of salt for the unforgiveable act of looking over her shoulder to see what the destruction of a city looks like. So remember, if you have to choose who to offer up for gang rape: your defenseless virginal daughters or a couple of magic angels, choose your daughters. But don't ever look where God tells you not to or you will be left in the desert to be licked by salt-hungry camels. Anyway, back to the film, it is one of the few experimental films I could watch over and over again. It is beautiful, erotic (homo that is), dark and perverse. Some of the Freudian imagery may seem cliche by todays standards, but that's classic film for you. Unlike most experimental film, this has an emotional kick to it. You really sense the villainous, demonic lust of the sodomites as well as the beauty and divine power of the angels through images which are beautifully shot and melodramatic in the best sense of the word.
User:flyblownghoul on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:10:37 +0000
This is a remarkable avante garde film from 1933. Expressionistic shadows and multiple super exposures create an experience which, by todays standards may look a little film schoolish, but at the time was innovative and shocking. It still, in spite of occasional cliches, remains a beautiful and affecting film. The story is one of the most perverse in the bible, in which two angels come to Lot's house in Sodom. Lot's lusty sodomite neighbors surround his house and demand the beautiful men be sent out so they can be raped. Lot, unwilling to allow the abuse of these guests of his house, looks to heaven and is told, "Withold not even thy daughters.", so he offers his virgin daughters to the mob instead, and tells them to do with the girls as they see fit. The angels save the day, however, blinding the rapists so they can't find the door. Evidently, Lot's offering his daughters up for rape is not a big deal to God because he still considers Lot righteous enough to be saved, along with Lot's entire family, except of course, his wife who is turned to a piller of salt for the unforgiveable act of looking over her shoulder to see what the destruction of a city looks like. So remember, if you have to choose who to offer up for gang rape: your defenseless virginal daughters or a couple of magic angels, choose your daughters. But don't ever look where God tells you not to or you will be left in the desert to be licked by salt-hungry camels. Anyway, back to the film, it is one of the few experimental films I could watch over and over again. It is beautiful, erotic (homo that is), dark and perverse. Some of the Freudian imagery may seem cliche by todays standards, but that's classic film for you. Unlike most experimental film, this has an emotional kick to it. You really sense the villainous, demonic lust of the sodomites as well as the beauty and divine power of the angels through images which are beautifully shot and melodramatic in the best sense of the word.
User:skripglow on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:39:58 +0000
Superb. One of the best avant garde/experimental films ever made. If this were remade today it would be 99% CGI (a process I wish had never been dscovered). Thank you Public Domain for introducing me to this masterpiece.
User:skripglow on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:39:58 +0000
Superb. One of the best avant garde/experimental films ever made. If this were remade today it would be 99% CGI (a process I wish had never been dscovered). Thank you Public Domain for introducing me to this masterpiece.
User:archturner on Thu, 15 Jun 2023 07:36:32 +0000
This movie has a remake. Surely it was successful in the old version and then did the new version again.traffic jam 3d