On the plus side, the director of this film appears very talented and
is able to capture the perfect essence of heat and decay that
Marquez was always writing about,(oppressive heat, decaying
homes and objects) and this film features a powerful symbol of
modern day Argentine woe; a filthy, rotting swimming pool that no
person in his right mind would enter , and once was a symbol of
upper class status. The film is full of powerful images like these
and creating a mood of despair that most people in Argentine are
no doubt feeling at the moment. However, the film is only one of three films that I've seen that
actually made me nauseous. (The other two were Polyester and
Gummo) The director seems obsessed with decaying images
and wounds. The mother cuts her bosom early on and has
horrible scars, an older son gets his nose busted in a fight, most
of the kids look in need of a serious bath and are full of scabs and
scratches, father walks around drunk and looking like he's about
to barf, animals lie dying in a swamp, and then there's of course
the pool. The director almost seems to have a fetish for rotting
images and bodily scars and wounds. It makes for a most
uncomfortable viewing experience and the director made his point
yet kept piling on the imagery. In this case, I would have liked less
of the gruesome imagery and more humanity
is able to capture the perfect essence of heat and decay that
Marquez was always writing about,(oppressive heat, decaying
homes and objects) and this film features a powerful symbol of
modern day Argentine woe; a filthy, rotting swimming pool that no
person in his right mind would enter , and once was a symbol of
upper class status. The film is full of powerful images like these
and creating a mood of despair that most people in Argentine are
no doubt feeling at the moment. However, the film is only one of three films that I've seen that
actually made me nauseous. (The other two were Polyester and
Gummo) The director seems obsessed with decaying images
and wounds. The mother cuts her bosom early on and has
horrible scars, an older son gets his nose busted in a fight, most
of the kids look in need of a serious bath and are full of scabs and
scratches, father walks around drunk and looking like he's about
to barf, animals lie dying in a swamp, and then there's of course
the pool. The director almost seems to have a fetish for rotting
images and bodily scars and wounds. It makes for a most
uncomfortable viewing experience and the director made his point
yet kept piling on the imagery. In this case, I would have liked less
of the gruesome imagery and more humanity