It’s October and I’m watching scary/Halloween themed movies. 22/30

This was... I don't really know what this was, to be honest. It's very clear that Guy Maddin loves him some silent film era techniques. I think maybe I'm not smart enough to get it.

But there was a minstrel in blackface for a not insignificant amount of screentime and that felt icky to me.

Ok ok I'm gonna try to break it down for real. Jealousy, toxic masculinity, the commodification of women, there's a lot going on here. Also—and this is not a joke, though it will sound like one—the main character has sex with a corpse. And like, he knows she's a corpse because he happens upon her literally on a funeral pyre.

There is a pretty intense buttgrappling fight at the end which results in a kiss between the main character and the guy whose wife was the corpse. There's probably a lot of psychosexual stuff going on here that I can't quite comprehend right now.

It just blows my mind that this whole story is something that a grandmother is telling her grandchildren while their mother is in a hospital bed dying. Afterwards, the kids ask the grandma if she'll visit them, to which she responds "if your father allows." Which, after a story like that, seems unlikely.

It’s October and I’m watching scary/Halloween themed movies. 22/30

This was... I don't really know what this was, to be honest. It's very clear that Guy Maddin loves him some silent film era techniques. I think maybe I'm not smart enough to get it.

But there was a minstrel in blackface for a not insignificant amount of screentime and that felt icky to me.

Ok ok I'm gonna try to break it down for real. Jealousy, toxic masculinity, the commodification of women, there's a lot going on here. Also—and this is not a joke, though it will sound like one—the main character has sex with a corpse. And like, he knows she's a corpse because he happens upon her literally on a funeral pyre.

There is a pretty intense buttgrappling fight at the end which results in a kiss between the main character and the guy whose wife was the corpse. There's probably a lot of psychosexual stuff going on here that I can't quite comprehend right now.

It just blows my mind that this whole story is something that a grandmother is telling her grandchildren while their mother is in a hospital bed dying. Afterwards, the kids ask the grandma if she'll visit them, to which she responds "if your father allows." Which, after a story like that, seems unlikely.