Thursday, November 27, 2008

We Are the Strange (Fantasia Fest 2007)

M dot Strange's new film We are the Strange is sincerely bizarre. A battle between the forces of good and evil is being waged in Stopmo City, the sinister chauvinist Him taking on noble outcasts Rain, eMMM and Blue. Blue has a disease of sorts that causes her skin to break out in scales whenever she speaks and eMMM is in search of cataclysmic ice cream. The battle scenes are intense, as is the scenery. The amount of depth worked into each of these split second scenes is incredible, leaving the hungry critic with an arsenal of symbolic material to analyze. While I wasn't too impressed with most of the dialogue, the following line is one of the most inspiring I've encountered in some time (concerning the saviour): "He will return and strike down evil with a fist made of aluminum foil. Then we will eat many scoops of ice cream."

Weird.

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