this isn’t art, it’s a freakshow for freaks like Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and people who agreed to work on Dau movies. don't get me wrong i love violent and disturbing movies like Antichrist, Irreversible, Visitor Q and so on, but what differs Dau from those movies is that Dau is lifeless piece of something that has absolutely nothing to say to its viewer, and all those violence is there for no good reason and just simply feels forced. Dau is experimental films where nothing is staged, and if sex isn't staged that’s cool but when little babies lying in a cage crying that were taken from a literal orphanage from Kharkov, Ukraine; and a naked newborn has electrodes attached to its head, and none of it is staged, is fucked-up and not in a way of the infamous Pasolini's Saló. Degeneration lives up to its title, it's pseudo-philosophical jerk-off material for people who brag that they watch "artsy" movies that are 4+ hours long, but Dau isn’t even artsy, it looks generic, badly acted by amateur actors who mumble throughout the entirety of the movies and sound mixing is beyond terrible (and it comes from someone who watched Sátántangó three times in one month).
Ilya Khrzhanovskiy is 40 years old man who obviously loves european art-house and decided to make his own epic experiment, and while the experiment itself sounds interesting: amateur actors living in a house for weeks while playing their characters and being filmed 24/7 without any script whatsoever. but it doesn’t resemble the result of the experiment that came out as lifeless and boring as possible, and second of all we have reality shows if you want to see people being filmed 24/7 doing some shit which once again proves that Ilya Khrzhanovskiy is total creep and the fact that the cast doesn’t like to talk about the production also proves it.
this isn’t art, it’s a freakshow for freaks like Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and people who agreed to work on Dau movies. don't get me wrong i love violent and disturbing movies like Antichrist, Irreversible, Visitor Q and so on, but what differs Dau from those movies is that Dau is lifeless piece of something that has absolutely nothing to say to its viewer, and all those violence is there for no good reason and just simply feels forced. Dau is experimental films where nothing is staged, and if sex isn't staged that’s cool but when little babies lying in a cage crying that were taken from a literal orphanage from Kharkov, Ukraine; and a naked newborn has electrodes attached to its head, and none of it is staged, is fucked-up and not in a way of the infamous Pasolini's Saló. Degeneration lives up to its title, it's pseudo-philosophical jerk-off material for people who brag that they watch "artsy" movies that are 4+ hours long, but Dau isn’t even artsy, it looks generic, badly acted by amateur actors who mumble throughout the entirety of the movies and sound mixing is beyond terrible (and it comes from someone who watched Sátántangó three times in one month).
Ilya Khrzhanovskiy is 40 years old man who obviously loves european art-house and decided to make his own epic experiment, and while the experiment itself sounds interesting: amateur actors living in a house for weeks while playing their characters and being filmed 24/7 without any script whatsoever. but it doesn’t resemble the result of the experiment that came out as lifeless and boring as possible, and second of all we have reality shows if you want to see people being filmed 24/7 doing some shit which once again proves that Ilya Khrzhanovskiy is total creep and the fact that the cast doesn’t like to talk about the production also proves it.
