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Suffering & Transcendence

posted 9 years ago by SubConsciousX
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The worst and most pointless movie I've ever seen about the transformative power of suffering and self-transcendence to divine states of being. Straight up, the only people who will enjoy this film are sadist gorehounds and hyper-intellectuals disconnected from their heart. I've read some of the reviews on the comment board and I'm dumbfounded how people justify this movie with elaborate, extensive intellectualizations on the existential merit of this film. You really have to dig deep into the recesses of your imagination to confabulate some story to somehow makes this movie meaningful to you. The overall message is very basic, yet, the way it's conveyed to the viewer is over-the-top and exaggerated to a sickeningly gratuitous extent.

'Martyrs' was unnecessary. Period. That's the best way I can describe it. To dress it up as some profound movie is to admit your naivete about life. Even Serbian Film had more of a message than this piece of garbage and that's saying something.

[–] aaron42o 9 years ago

I hear what you're saying, but I'm not sure I entirely agree.

For one, A Serbian Film was garbage (for me), but even then, I think all films have an artistic value, however profane. I don't have a disconnected or absent heart, yet I found the overall message of Martyrs to be interesting. I may not agree with the execution (pun intended), but I don't have to like a movie 100% to believe it has value.

And all art is artistic to some degree. Nothing that was ever created lacks artistic merit. Even the plastic chair you sat in when you were in elementry school was designed by someone to have a modicum of artistic appeal to it.