One can only wonder at the motivation of such an ill conceived project. Was it to scare people from exploring with the sacrament of psychedelic mushrooms ? Or to show us how empty our vacuous culture has become? I'm sure the people involved in this project have some semblance of creative endeavour, yet I struggle to find any redeeming traits in this film what so ever.
So ignorant and uninformed is it with its subject matter, that quite frankly it's an humanitarian embarrassment. For truly enlightenment debate upon such issues one should explore Terence Mckenna, Bill Hicks, Alex Grey, Tom Robbins (Another Roadside Attraction), Daniel Pinchbeck, and the great Aldous Huxley (Island).
I confess I'm not a fan of the horror genre, yet this film veers towards poisonous propaganda. If todays two most valuable commodities are minerals and imagination, then what we see from the hegemony of American foreign policy and cultural exports is the subjugation of people, and authentic human exploration. This is a cultural example of Naomi Kleins "Shock Doctrine" ; in this case a sacrament of spiritual and personal insight, psilocybe semilanceata (liberty cap) is reduced by association to a similar fictional mushroom (the death head fungi) to something both frightening and deadly dangerous.
William Blake asserts "We must create our own systems or be enslaved by another mans". As individuals we must must explore our own realities on our own terms. Cultures for millennium have used entheogens to explore and enhance, yet we seemed to be tribally reduced to Starbucks, Bud, and Big Masc; 50,000 years of human evolution will in England give me seven years in prison for picking mushrooms: By who and why ? I leave to you to ponder.
We need to somehow reclaim our birthrights as evolving conscious beings, able to create and share. Do not waste your time with this film; go to a festival, a walk in the hills, or meditate, and pick your heroes wisely.
There is some vaguely interesting cinematography, yet it is lost within the context of such contrived drivel, if you do indeed buy into the Bud, Big Mac, and Nike mentality then watch it; for this is what you deserve.
The film is truly awful.
So ignorant and uninformed is it with its subject matter, that quite frankly it's an humanitarian embarrassment. For truly enlightenment debate upon such issues one should explore Terence Mckenna, Bill Hicks, Alex Grey, Tom Robbins (Another Roadside Attraction), Daniel Pinchbeck, and the great Aldous Huxley (Island).
I confess I'm not a fan of the horror genre, yet this film veers towards poisonous propaganda. If todays two most valuable commodities are minerals and imagination, then what we see from the hegemony of American foreign policy and cultural exports is the subjugation of people, and authentic human exploration. This is a cultural example of Naomi Kleins "Shock Doctrine" ; in this case a sacrament of spiritual and personal insight, psilocybe semilanceata (liberty cap) is reduced by association to a similar fictional mushroom (the death head fungi) to something both frightening and deadly dangerous.
William Blake asserts "We must create our own systems or be enslaved by another mans". As individuals we must must explore our own realities on our own terms. Cultures for millennium have used entheogens to explore and enhance, yet we seemed to be tribally reduced to Starbucks, Bud, and Big Masc; 50,000 years of human evolution will in England give me seven years in prison for picking mushrooms: By who and why ? I leave to you to ponder.
We need to somehow reclaim our birthrights as evolving conscious beings, able to create and share. Do not waste your time with this film; go to a festival, a walk in the hills, or meditate, and pick your heroes wisely.
There is some vaguely interesting cinematography, yet it is lost within the context of such contrived drivel, if you do indeed buy into the Bud, Big Mac, and Nike mentality then watch it; for this is what you deserve.
The film is truly awful.