So, I may well not be the target "market" for this. I'm 5th-gen "white trash" (it's my word and I'm using it)... but, I'm literate and I like film.
Watching this at 4am on the tail end of a very tedious breakup and and nice long bipolar binge... I found this incredibly engrossing, "a visual feast". Maybe easiest to consume this as if it were a long-form music video - I found it gripping from the start and the lead dancer able to convey so much through body movement and his facial expressions.
The soundtrack is generally quite good, sub-industrial percussion + strings. If anything, this is the area that for me it was perhaps not as strong as it should have been. For an "art installation?"/piece I would have liked it musically much more challenging, perhaps GodspeedYBE+John Zorn or current darling Colin Stetson might have been better suited - when the music is "harsh" it's just not harsh enough and that seems a disservice to an otherwise 10/10 piece.
Set design and costumes are perfect and very much help to evoke what I think is trying to be conveyed here.
8/10 - could have been 10/10 with a more thoughtful soundtrack.
Watching this at 4am on the tail end of a very tedious breakup and and nice long bipolar binge... I found this incredibly engrossing, "a visual feast". Maybe easiest to consume this as if it were a long-form music video - I found it gripping from the start and the lead dancer able to convey so much through body movement and his facial expressions.
The soundtrack is generally quite good, sub-industrial percussion + strings. If anything, this is the area that for me it was perhaps not as strong as it should have been. For an "art installation?"/piece I would have liked it musically much more challenging, perhaps GodspeedYBE+John Zorn or current darling Colin Stetson might have been better suited - when the music is "harsh" it's just not harsh enough and that seems a disservice to an otherwise 10/10 piece.
Set design and costumes are perfect and very much help to evoke what I think is trying to be conveyed here.
8/10 - could have been 10/10 with a more thoughtful soundtrack.