Rape, murder, suicide, incest, and the constant overbearing threat of a great avalanche triggered by as little as the volume of one's voice...it's all just another day at the office inside the imaginative mind of Guy Maddin.
"Careful" is a coldly comic drama that bathes merrily in its own strangeness. The story is all over the place, even if it is pretty straightforward and coherent for a Guy Maddin production. Plot twists, love affairs, suicides, deaths, secrets, sexual desires, and more cause the story's simple foundations to spiral into a madman's epic of absurd and surreal measures. Painted with the tears of tragedy and the spit of black comedy, "Careful" is not a love story, but a collection of love stories that aren't really love stories...it's hard to describe, like any great Guy Maddin film is. This is an essential work for any fan of film in general, as long as this "hypothetical fan" I am referring to is willing to broaden his or her horizons and delve into a more disturbing, weird, and experimental piece of filmmaking that is not afraid to make the viewer directly uncomfortable, sickened, humored, and depressed in a matter of minutes.
"Careful" is a coldly comic drama that bathes merrily in its own strangeness. The story is all over the place, even if it is pretty straightforward and coherent for a Guy Maddin production. Plot twists, love affairs, suicides, deaths, secrets, sexual desires, and more cause the story's simple foundations to spiral into a madman's epic of absurd and surreal measures. Painted with the tears of tragedy and the spit of black comedy, "Careful" is not a love story, but a collection of love stories that aren't really love stories...it's hard to describe, like any great Guy Maddin film is. This is an essential work for any fan of film in general, as long as this "hypothetical fan" I am referring to is willing to broaden his or her horizons and delve into a more disturbing, weird, and experimental piece of filmmaking that is not afraid to make the viewer directly uncomfortable, sickened, humored, and depressed in a matter of minutes.