Poison Reviews

Movie at the time of its release, caused a stir, with its attendant inflammatory harangues, in the most puritanical of American society, that is, almost everyone.

Comprised of three seemingly unrelated stories, of unequal interest, interspersed and molds are entirely different aesthetic, "Hero", presented as a documentary, focuses on a boy who kills her abusive stepfather and flies out the window to disappear into the sky. In "Horror", a parody of black and white films of series B 50, a scientist isolate the sexual instinct and after mistakenly drinking becomes a monster pustulent. "Homo", based on a story by Jean Genet, is the most controversial of the three stories. In it, a young reunited in prison reformatory by a fellow who feels a strange attraction, whose key is found in an ancient scene victimization.

"Poison" explores the headlong rush of three unusual beings and abandoned in an aggressive environment who has injected the sexual drive, one way or another, a poison that causes them to suffer marginalization and rejection of a world that does not tolerate the difference.

The assembly is the least confusing, especially at first, the viewer will cost warned not understand that attends three stories with no relation between them as they will not be assembled piece by piece (yes, from beginning to end, no regrettable as the irreversibility experiments). Although his vision is not, mainly because it's all just discussed-digestible, must flatter the courage of Todd Haynes, its maker, addressing issues involved (taboo for some), no easy or complacent in his first film.

Genet's brilliant phrase that opens the film is a treatise of principles:
"The whole world is dying of panicky fright" ... there is more to do a translation to the current economic/social development of these times.