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How could ANYBODY call this garbage a "MASTERPIECE?"""


I just finished watching this movie for the first time and I only have one question (well, several really, but just one MAIN quesiton):

WHAT SENSE DOES ALL THIS MAKE?...it makes no sense at all, as far as i can tell.......NONE OF IT...what was the creature?...Where did it come from?....How did Anna get hooked up with it?...Why did the creature want to have sex with a human and WHY HER?....how did it evolve into Mark's doppelganger?....

After Anna attempted to cut her own throat with an electric knife, and Mark bandaged her up, why would he start slicing on his own arm?...Have you ever known ANYBODY in your whole LIFE who would do such a thing?....i haven't..Like I said, NOTHING in this movie makes any sense and certainly isn't believable....

What was the point of Mark making the cab driver crash into the back of the police car?...

What was up with all the sirens at the end, as if world war 2 were in progress?...

When Mark first left his house after finding out his wife wanted a divorce, what caused all those seizures he had?..he called someone on the phone and couldn't talk, as if he had gotten the wind knocked out of him...was he on some kind of drug?...Everybody in this film acted crazy as if they were on PCP or something....

Why did Mark kill Heinrick?...At the point Heinrick was killed, Mark had developed an infatuation with Helen and wasn't interested in Anna and Heinrick anymore, so why kill him?...When Mark asked Heinrick how long he had been screwing his wife, Heinrick said "one year."..does this mean that the year she was screwing Heinrick, she also was screwing the creature at the same time?....If so, I fail to see why Anna would have an affair with Heinrick in the first place, because she told Mark she got more out of sex with her lover (I assume, referring to the creature).......

Why did Anna have that fit in the subway, then start oozing blood and white stuff out of her?...

what did she mean when she referred to "SISTER FAITH" and "SISTER CHANCE?"...What did she mean when she said "ITS NOT FINISHED", and, when she was having sex with the creature, she looked at Mark and said, "ALMOST...ALMOST....ALMOST?"....Almost WHAT, for God's sake?.....and when Mark saw the creature on top of his wife, he had a look on his face as if to say, "oh ok...i understand."....well please explain it to me because I sure don't understand it....

At the end, when Mark and Anna took all those bullets, why was the doppleganger not hit?...was he like Superman?...Did the bullets just bounce of of him?.....or maybe the bullets went THROUGH HIM....maybe he was a ghost?...

All I could do through this whole movie is say "maybe maybe maybe" about everything because NOTHING made any sense....God I hate movies like this....This was the biggest waste of celluloid, time, and money I've ever seen....Here is a tip for the director/writer: If a movie makes no sense, noone will be able to understand it...DUH...More importantly, if nothing is explained, and you are not going to be able to understand it, why watch it in the first place?...I was conned into believing this movie was good.....I can't help but feel angry.....I've just wasted 2 hours of my life that i will never get back....One can only hope that the director responsible for this crap will some day get raped by some unexplained creature from who-knows-where.....

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It's one of those movies that's worth watching if you don't think too much about it. Think of it as high-brow schlock. Those that don't care too much about plot probably love it and will try and defend it as really profound and poetic; I only came to appreciate it by not taking it seriously. I like the visuals, the Berlin setting, Isabelle Adjani's tits, the weird paranoid energy, the cinematography, the subway freak-out, and the *beep* crazy tentacle monster. It's a sputtering, pretentious mess, but the parts when isolated are at least amusing to gawk at.

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Tin_ear speaks the truth.

I personally liked it (didn't love it, but liked it) - it was off the wall and really leaves you to draw your own conclusions. Is it about Communism, religion, aliens, the monster inside us all, schizophrenia, etc.? Who knows? You could pick any number of meanings to the film and not be incorrect, unless told directly what was canon by the director / writer. Don't let a self-proclaimed film genius tell you how to interpret a mostly subjective plot because it's not straightforward and as far as I know doesn't intend to be. At the end of the day, like Tin_ear wrote, the movie is best left to not be taken too seriously. Enjoy the cinematography and the sheer bizarreness of it. And Isabelle Adjani's tits.

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Yes, she had nice pink little titties.

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Ah, another person who gets angry while watching a surreal movie. Good... let the hate flow through you...

The good ol' "I personally don't understand the movie, therefore it makes no sense!"

Good... feel the rage...

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I like your jib lad.

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You answered your own question (title) right in the second paragraph: "it makes no sense at all, as far as i can tell". If you didn't understand or didn't EVEN try, don't try to tell the world that you have a point.

Also, a movie's quality isn't only based on the plot, you have books for that.

Cheers.

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This is another simple case of a guy who takes everything at face value and doesn't understand the merits of thinking for himself.

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How could ANYBODY call this garbage a "MASTERPIECE?"

My sentiments exactly. It's flabbergasting how bad this shit was.

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I didn't dislike it as much as you but I also wonder how it could be called a "masterpiece!"

I think the biggest joke was the scene in the subway with Adjani going off. People said that was a real thrilling scene and I thought it was ridiculous!! Having a tantrum, throwing her groceries against a wall over and over?? Come on!

The storyline of an evil entity growing out of her misery and murders was actually sort of cool, but it could have been done much better. it was very convoluted and poorly acted! I also didn't care for the ending.

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