59.750

The first film from the Criterion Collection I feel is completely worthless. It felt like a cult Rocky Horror Picture Show, or a failed film student's attempt at Bunuel. The acting is brazenly awful, but the actors don't have much to work with: the dialogue is didactic and harsh, and without meaning. Its absurdity would be valid if it didn't believe so violently in its political purpose.

I love the few short scenes spent with Elizabeth which are delightfully overwritten with a lovely poetic quality, and as always I am fascinated by Jarman's style, all grotesque and excessive. Unfortunately much of the stuff set in the alternate future is annoying with some grating characterisations, very weak performances and an irritating tendency towards didacticism with characters being prompted to spout out their beliefs which results in much of the dialogue feeling clunky and awkward.

VERY Silly, but I don't mind it, Jayne County is awesome (of course)

Wow! What a didactic and boring piece of crap! There's no storyline, no plot, no acting, nothing. Even its absurdity doesn't help to make it better. Grotesque!

A journey to the mystical waterfalls of pain that are located within England. Beware, these water are extremely dangerous, Do Not Touch.

Crap.

A complete waste of time. The British punk equivalent of John Waters: low budget production, deviant characters living in a state of anarchy, a heavy dose of ironic bad taste, and truly awful acting. The key difference is that Waters has a good sense of humor, and Jarman doesn't. Furthermore, Jarman takes his political bullshit far too seriously. These folks are constantly spewing their ridiculous, boring, adolescent polemic at each other.