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Performance (1970)
The one that achieves madness, am I right?
Beautiful little freaky stripy beast, darling... This film is Europe's cumulaive rite of passage - if more people had watched this, we wouldn't be stuck in this awfulness now. Basically carries on Antonin Artaud's legacy, and therefore unfortunately has about the same impact on society. This work is usually dismissed in the same way he was. Sometimes I wonder how he'd be thought of now had he really thrown explosives into the audience (I wonder if those Chechens had ever heard of him - either way the important questions concerning self-determination whether in art or religion will remain - until someone with a society's backing accepts they're a real part of our humanity.). Anyway, the film is much more, much more, nothing is true... deathbed or not.