Climax

“Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.” - Georges Bataille “Eroticism is the brink of the abyss. I'm leaning out over deranged horror (at this point my eyes roll back in my head). The abyss is the foundation of the possible. We're brought to the edge of the same abyss by uncontrolled laughter or ecstasy. From this comes a "questioning" of everything possible. This is the stage of rupture, of letting go of things, of looking forward to death.“ - Georges Bataille “But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.“ - Georges Bataille These quotes illuminate what this movie is really about better than any synopsis or review could: it’s a divine nightmare at the boiling point of human experience; pain, suffering, pleasure, eroticism, grief, anger are all flattened in the ecstatic experience of continuity, the loss of self. Needless to say, as someone who loves Georges Bataille (and really whatever else strange 20th century French philosophy) I was almost immediately in, and was not disappointed. This movie is so thematically strong that i almost didn’t even bring up the incredible acting, lighting, cinematography, tone, constant creativity, and music