A savagely unique maelstrom of experimental photography and a surprisingly conservative theatrical narrative. It's noteworthy that Begotten evokes a supremely effective alternate universe that seems ancient and profound. It's best appreciated when you let the images wash over you and become entangled inside its strange web of enchanting imagery. The narrative and traditional structure are the film's greatest weaknesses but once you accept its rigidness the film maintains it's surreal cohesion.

An interesting concept with some really great visuals. The opening ten minutes are amazing. Unfortunately, the movie runs out of steam early on and just gets tedious. There is a lot of symbolism and metaphors all throughout the film, but it's hard to care about them when I'm struggling to stay awake.

I'll get back to you on it

It's awesome that this movie was made. But I can't say that I understood it, or even that I enjoyed watching it very much.

Despite it being a pretty short movie anyway, if you cut it a little bit then you eliminate some of the eventual boredom you'll feel... and then you can concentrate on the disturbing and inspired visuals and the great minimalist sounds. It'd be a 95 (or even higher) then.

All I liked about this film was the opening, the cinematography, and the score. I think the rest of the film is a bunch of guys carrying a dead body over a hill.

It's easy to see why it gets a lot of flak, yet I found its madcap fever dream engrossing and hypnotic. It's fairly disturbing, though if I could fault it it would be that it seems like it is trying to be far more disturbing than it actually is as it lacks the emotional core needed to take it up that extra rung (there's a reason why Eraserhead is so disturbing!). Still its images are so captivating and with the super high contrast gain this dreamlike quality, and the concept is very interesting.

I appreciate its experimentation, but honestly I was left feeling bored by the "shocking" visuals. I'm sure there are many pretentious film students out there who could school me on why it's such an important film of modern times, but I'm just not interested.

Fuck tha haters

I really enjoyed the opening of the film - its grotesque yet strangely ethereal, especially the "Mother Earth" sequence. But it just collapses into a heap of nonsense after that and the visuals were so bad I couldn't even tell exactly what I was watching.

Pretentious boring art film that says nothing

Extremely creepy and intense atmosphere. Any film that starts with God disembowling himself is a winner. My new favourite view on creation!

So yeah. I don't know what to say. I mean, it kept my interest and had some pretty gruesome parts. But, overall, it was hard to make out what was happening. That was less to do with the narrative than the filming techniques; the last shots show what look like some kind of rotting corpse or something, but I couldn't really tell. That bothered me, I felt like I could get more out of it if I could see.

Weird....

Staggeringly pretentious love-it-or-hate-it filmmaking. I'm firmly in the former camp, but I can't shake the feeling that I could have made it myself in a day or two.

La técnica utilizada es lo único que llamó mi atención; el resto de la película se basó en recursos poco interesantes y aburridos.

More like, this'll be FORGOTTEN lololol

Yes, it's art-school garbage, but it's oddly captivating. Might have been incredible at about half the length.

"You don't get it"

Stunning and original in small portions but dosnt work as well for watching from beginning to end. The story is somewhat cliché but the backround noises and several of the visuals save it.

I saw a vagina.

Cliché, pretentious claptrap. The filming technique alone is nauseating, and not in a good way.

Don't really know what to think about this movie...........

Reading the summary for this movie inspires the ultimate WTF response. That's what made me sit through it. Unfortunately it is way too long - yeah I know that it's intentional - but it does offer a unique film experience. Eventually shock becomes disgust, which becomes morbid fascination, which becomes confusion, and ultimately even boredom. If this film would have avoided the boredom part, it would be worthy of a 80 or more!

In its bare form, this movie should be garbage. It's much of an art-school, masturbatory effort that lasts far longer than its welcome, but it is strangely engrossing. Minimalist in all terms, there is a strange beauty to this grainy hallucination.

I can't help but think that this is one of the worse surrealist films I've seen, but despite that there's something Merhige accomplished within this film that keeps me coming back for repeat viewings. The visuals are over-the-top gross-out and don't have the subtlety of Lynch or the artistry of Jodorowsky, but they're still incredibly compelling to look at. You might not enjoy it, but it's hard to look away, and you'll revisit it occasionally with a kind of grim fascination.

Painstakingly lensed in supergrainy B&W and scored with a genuinely eerie minimalist soundtrack (birdcalls, heartbeats, buried, dirgelike melodies). A feature-length fever dream, this unspools sans dialogue or formal narrative. At 78 minutes, Merhige's hallucination eventually becomes an audience endurance test; the film would have been twice as effective at half the length.

Es la pelicula mas perturbadora, que he visto, a primera vista puede parecer una pesadilla o algo irreal, pero esta llena de significados religiosos, sociales, etc, la atmosfera en donde te encierra esta cinta es de otro lugar, ademas debo de agregar que fue hecha de una forma artesanal y tiene un algo nivel tecnico en su elaboracion.

Pretentious and incomprehensible but still rather captivating, although it's at least twice as long as it needs to be. Very nice sound and music.

Is the most disturbing thing that i saw, but i think that it would be just a short film. there's scenes which is soooooo long.