| I was looking forward to these films after hearing so much about them. My advice is not to waste your time. Luckily, they are only 30 minutes apiece. There is a student film on here called The Awakening, but I was so bored and disappointed by the first two films I skipped it. Aftermath is the film that most people talk about. It starts out well, with some good atmosphere and excellent camera work, but then goes downhill from there. It's actually very boring, despite the intense gore. It's rather predictable that the morgue attendant would be a necrophiliac. Nacho Cerda, the filmmaker, just went out of his way to shock people. I have seen tons of "hardcore" cinema, and this stuff didn't bother me. There was no real soul or art to the film, which makes it just an exercise in style, and a rather tedious one at that. If you want to see an artistic film about a morgue, watch Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes. Brakhage films actual autopsies, and there is a strange, mystical, even spiritual quality to Brakhage's film. That is nowhere to be found here. The other film, Genesis, doesn't fare much better. Genesis starts out to be another exercise in style, with some really obvious acting by the lead actor. There are several lame dream sequences here, and it gets pretty dull very fast. The ending isn't too bad, but the first 25 minutes or so of Genesis are just an ordeal to sit through. A rather disappointing evening. |
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