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Teorema
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5024165281642
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Original Language), AnalogItalian (Original Language), Analog
Number Of Discs: 1
Theatrical Release Date: 1968
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Rating:  - brilliant, haunting
Through gorgeous cinematography and a bold symbolic language that makes it very difficult to take the film literally, Pasolini investigates the hollowness of bourgeois life. The film may be difficult for those expecting either a straightforward narrative or a 'deep' avant-garde experience: by resisting those boundaries Pasolini created a film that is both hilarious and haunting, dealing frankly with sex in a way that is impossible to ignore but difficult to take seriously. My advice to anyone watching ... Read More
Rating: - "A theorem is a proposition that has been or is to be proved on the basis of explicit assumptions...,
..Proving theorems is a central activity of mathematicians. Note that "theorem" is distinct from "theory". (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Teorema" (1968) is a fable that tells how a handsome young man (extremely attractive Terrence Stamp "with the eyes of an angel and the grin of the devil") stays as a guest in the house of a wealthy factory owner and seduces one after another all members of the household - the maid, the teenagers son and daughter, the wife, ... Read More
Rating:  - I'm Still Not Sure What I Just Watched
I saw Teorema because I've long wanted to see Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Salo" a movie I've still yet to see. After watching Teorema (a movie I've simultaneously heard great things about and terrible things about), I find myself wondering what it is I've just viewed? The movie is like a run-on sentence. A series of scenes that don't seem to end, but merely flow into each other. There's less dialogue than there was in Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny." Oddly enough, that movie has more haters than this film. ... Read More
Rating:  - all depth and no surface
This film is very difficult to warm up to because the symbols have revolted and knuckled the poor narrative under--the story is bullied by its own symbols. Whatever sparse narrative there is is written in terse, disjunctive emily-dickinsonisms. The constant flashing of smoking desert sand is too "waste land". The final scream, is well, you guessed it, Edvard Munch. In contrast, in a movie like Antonioni's "L'Avventura," the images are integrated into and organic with the narrative--you could never predict ... Read More
Rating:  - The "Plan 9 from Outer Space" of Art-House Films
Unintentionally hilarious; so pretentious and poorly made that I was strangling with laughter several times. Jesus/God/Satan has sex with every member of a cartoonish bourgeois family and ruins their lives in various side-splitting ways. The maid becomes a saint who eats nettle soup, cures scarred children, and floats in the air. The wife bites the side of her finger, has sex with random strangers, and screams with all the authenticity of a teen in a slasher flick as Mozart's Requiem thunders in the background. ... Read More
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