Among the films that I have on my to-do list, was «tideland«, One that I had completely forgotten in my eagerness to update myself, forgetting the films of a couple of years ago. And last night I decided to remember, and very comfortable in my bed I saw the film of Terry Gilliam, 2005.
One director that I personally consider brilliant is Gilliam. After a spectacular Brazil or 12 Monos, there is no chance of disappointment. And it is that what it promises it fulfills. Well, I started the film without knowing what it was about, and I must say, it is very difficult.
The film focuses on the protagonist, who manages the film's point of view all the time. A girl, the daughter of a rock star addicted to all kinds of drugs, and a woman who at the beginning of the film dies of a methadone overdose. The girl has not learned what each of the essential things in life is, and death does not stop frightening her from the most instinctive part of her being, and no longer as an awareness of its implication. She ignores more than she should, and lives in a world of fantasies, where everyone around her protects her, and keeps her in a deception that each of the characters ends up being their own. With a boyfriend who later takes her for his girlfriend, who is nothing more than a mental patient and epileptic, Geliza-Rose, the girl, lives in the fantasy of fairies, ghosts and dolls that are her best friends.
In an environment of full light, although infinitely oppressive, situations develop that one, from the other side of something, feels in the pit of the stomach like pain in the face of the purest of impotences. Morbidity is not based on itself, but rather on the essential ignorance, and the transmutation to fantasy of each event and emotion. Everything loses to win, or wins to lose.
For those who have not seen this film, I must say that it is one of the ones that has affected my emotion the most in the last many hours. Recommended for his humanity and rawness, and fantasy and purity, and because Terry Gilliam is fat, big, immense.