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Some films are unforgettable. This is such a film. It's been a couple of years since I saw Pate but I literally cannot get it out of my head.Why? Pate certainly dazzles with a vibrancy and mordant humor that even Fellini would have been proud of. Yet the unforgettable, unsettling power of the film comes not just from its visual richness, but from its ability to raise profound questions about materialism and feminism through a series of bizarre and often shocking scenes: the mother and Mr. Griswald circling each other in a macabre tango like carnivorous mating insects; the dull acceptance of the little girl as she's led away to the kitchen – and the realization at the end of the film that this isn't the first time the mother has sacrificed her offspring for the insatiable Griswald.This is probably one of the most stunning films I've ever seen. It works on so many levels. Visual. Visceral. Metaphorical.But it's also a simple film. About a family reduced to the basest level, surrounded by echoes and reminders of a more civilized, more humane past. The only things that matter are mating and gathering food as they desperately try to survive another day. Just like the insects they eat.
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