User Reviews

I'm glad that i didn't let that other reviwer's comment discourage me from watching this movie. It's not as surreal as he thinks, maybe he was looking too deep in the visuals he got distracted from following the plot. Which is something i would recommend doing with a movie like "Begotten" to understand the symbolisms, but not with this movie.

I loved this movie alot, maninly because it reminded me of the PS2 videogame "ICO", two mute protagonists, the girl is locked away, and the guy is running around trying to get to her, and masked enemies are looking for them.

And the music is fantastic too, especially at around 25 minutes in and going.

9/10, will watch again.

High-handedly experimental films are often perceived as lacking narrative, regardless of the filmmaker's personal vision. Films crafted as a visual stream-of-consciousness typically do tell a story, though in a way so vague and abstract that viewers will be apt to draw diversified interpretations. I suspect this would be the case with AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, a dialog free, post-psychedelic black-and-white ayahuasca trip which hurls a barrage of hypnagogic imagery at the viewer, presumably to be translated into something somewhat humanly relatable. What I personally gleaned from this uncombed tangle of Delphic woolgathering involves a scientist attempting to shield his innocent muse, a female born of a chrysalis, from abduction by other, less compassionate minds of science who wish to study or exploit her. The transpirations at hand are accompanied chiefly by mellow improv noodling on a bass, flute and drum.

AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH is a film which so pushes its nonrepresentational methodologies that it ultimately comes up audience-dissociating and uncommunicative. Too, it's never as visually enrapturing as films like ERASERHEAD or BEGOTTEN, making it a rather toilsome viewing experience. Being neither especially visionary nor iconographically stimulating, it's unlikely to be of much interest to any but the most stalwart procurors of fringe experimental cinema.

4/10.