Poem

Vivaldi rocks this Klossowskian masterpiece on the compositional relationships between transgression and transaction, phantasm and perversion, territorialisation and deterritorialisation, and simulacrum and utensil (or tool), and the relationships between these relationships. Has this film ever been understood? What initially seems like a turn by the filmmaker towards a more conventional approach proves deceptive, as the carefully worked-out scenario unfolds its full, devastating force.

Perversions (in a Klossowskian sense) as what holds open a world by redirecting and feeding into themselves all energy in impulses including even those primal ones like impulses of subsistence and procreation, though the perversion shown in this film is towards a fantasy and therefore amounts to no real alternative to nihilism of the purely exchangeable. The possibility of reinterpreting Buddhism in view of Klossowski is suggested: is Buddha actually someone who holds a perversion to the bottom?

Views raw without subtitles. Want to see with subtitles.

i want to try that roasted barley flour.