Posted: Mar 12, 08 11:58am

I hope that Guy doesn't mind me shanghai'ing this group for today. I promise to give it back unharmed.

I just saw an interesting film and no around me has seen it (or desires to), so although I'm busting to discuss it, the cat can only take so much of my cinematic insight.

The film was "Slipstream". It was produced by Anthony Hopkins (screenplay by Anthony Hopkins, starring Anthony Hopkins and original music by Anthony Hopkins). I read a review of this which said "A terrible mess! Don't see it!" So, of course I had to run out and rent it.

David Lynch would be proud of Sir Anthony! It was a bombardment of sounds, images, characters, real people, characters pretending to be real people...real people pretending to be characters...It was a visual and psychological hodgepodge of cinematography.

You really have to work at getting through this one.

Was it worth it? For me it was.

There were a number of scenes when taken out of context (actually, there was no context) brilliantly allowed some of the actors to exhibit the extremes of their talents. One particular scene between Christian Slater and Jeffrey Tambor (Jeffrey Tambor can act?) was especially fascinating, albeit disturbing.

While the film does not ever quite redeem itself, it does offer an explanation for its behavior towards the end.

I can't recommend it, unless you're very open minded about your idea of entertainment, but if anyone should accidentally watch it, or be forced by a friend to watch it, I'd love to hear your opinion.