I forgot the opening line 🦁...
What an odd movie about a serial killer who leaves bird poop on his victims as his calling card. This is one of the strangest Hollywood produced movies I have ever seen, yet I can't deny that some of the commentary was effective. You can think of this movie as Altman's 8 1/2 with a dash of American absurdist humor. Sequences happen without explanation, plot lines remain open, random characters come into play for, well, just because they are random and are served to entertain. If that doesn't sound appealing to you, take a hard pass on this. If you'd like to see Bud Cort and Shelly Duvall have one of the strangest, yet effective on screen romances you'll have seen in a minute, then I'd give it a try. Ari Aster definitely took some influence from this film as well, especially with the ending of this film.
Again, this movie is absurdist to the max, but I would be dishonest if I didn't say that some of the commentary of American racism, greed, and power lust was interesting due to the cultural climate of the country following the Nixon administration. I respect Altman for having the confidence to deliver such a unique film that I'm sure will go down as one of the weirdest I've seen from him.
What an odd movie about a serial killer who leaves bird poop on his victims as his calling card. This is one of the strangest Hollywood produced movies I have ever seen, yet I can't deny that some of the commentary was effective. You can think of this movie as Altman's 8 1/2 with a dash of American absurdist humor. Sequences happen without explanation, plot lines remain open, random characters come into play for, well, just because they are random and are served to entertain. If that doesn't sound appealing to you, take a hard pass on this. If you'd like to see Bud Cort and Shelly Duvall have one of the strangest, yet effective on screen romances you'll have seen in a minute, then I'd give it a try. Ari Aster definitely took some influence from this film as well, especially with the ending of this film.
Again, this movie is absurdist to the max, but I would be dishonest if I didn't say that some of the commentary of American racism, greed, and power lust was interesting due to the cultural climate of the country following the Nixon administration. I respect Altman for having the confidence to deliver such a unique film that I'm sure will go down as one of the weirdest I've seen from him.