W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
1971
Directed by Dusan Makavejev
Boyfriend was recently complaining to me that every movie that comes out today is the same. I don't really agree with his opinion but if any of my readers agree and are looking for something radically different, you could give this film a shot. I don't even think you would like it, but it would make boring, conventional movies seem phenomenal. I actually don't believe anyone could like this movie. How it got on The List is the real Mystery.
So we start the film with some guy singing some anthem or hymn off key. I had to watch this part three times since my internet kept freezing. After three times, I still don't really understand what that was about or why the singer was so bad. Next, we are treated to a scene of a bunch of random people playing with an egg yolk. Gross. There is really no plot to this movie so let me just pick out a few random scenes. Scientists study the orgasm by studying women while they climax. I have no idea how they made the women climax since that part isn't shown but I am calling bullshit on the whole thing. No woman is that loud when she has an orgasm. If any woman screamed that loudly, her partner would flee from the scene while neighbors called the police. There is another scene where an artist masturbates a man then makes a cast out of his penis. There is a whole other side plot where a woman is yelling about communism and watches other people have sex. There, wasn't that a beautiful synopsis?
I would like to give a Darwin Award to the genius that decided to make the subtitles white, when the background was also constantly white. Maybe they were just seeing how unbearable they could make the film. Kudos. I give you a ten in that department.
RATING: *----
Interesting Facts:
Banned in Yugoslavia.
One of Roger Ebert's Great Movies. Oh Roger.
