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This might be Svankmajer's funniest film.
I felt comparatively normal watching the fetishists because I didn't want to admit I have absurd fantasies in the dark crevices of my mind and I practice rituals that I'd be ashamed if they were publicly known. (I feel it's a mistake to project one's abnormalcy, deviance, or bad traits onto others and having too much schadenfreude, because being honest with oneself is the only way to mature.)
When I notice a particular ritual or habit of mine is mor"
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Franz Kafka called sex "a disease of the instincts." Conspirators of Pleasure attests to that sentiment in an ironic, sardonic, and asinine sort of way.
It's my first Jan Svankmajer film, ya see, and I am understandably stumped by such a mind-blowing movie. The loosely-patched together story is about 6 abnormal people with equally unusual and questionable fetishes. The whole movie is silent without dialogue, filled with expressive acting and eye-popping stop motion animation.
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Masentavan synkän realismin runtelemassa maailmassa unikuvia tarjoava surrealismi on tärkeää. Se auttaa irrottautumaan arjesta, antaa upota mitä mielikuvituksellisempiin haaveisiin ja saa jopa hetkittäin uskomaan niihin. Kun sitten paluu maanpinnalle jälleen tapahtuu, voi huomata kaiken olevan edelleen yhtä paskasti tai Conspirators of Pleasuren tapauksessa vieläkin huonommin, mikäli sekoitettaa toden ja fantasian liian pahasti keskenään. Oikeassa elämässä ei pysty korjaamaan"
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