Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry
BEGOTTEN is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth. Astounding and baffling critics and audiences alike, B...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 20, 2001
Stats: 302 reviews
God disembowels himself with a straight razor, among other metaphysical atrocities in this nearly narrativeless 70 minute experimental feature where each frame of film has been painstakingly transformed and distressed to create a starkly beautiful chiaroscuro universe. A very ha...( read more)
I am not going to write a review, because this movie doesn't deserve one.
It deserves a human sacrifice.
And I am not joking.
A tedious pseudo intellectual experiment that would have worked better as a short film.
A brilliant collage in my opinion!For the record,there's hardly any comprehensive information regarding the incontrollable dimension this film portrays,it's almost like nightmares/dreams joined a pact and the real world is entering oblivion!
Whatever was Merhige's intention,to va...( read more)
This is seriously pretentious arty nonsense filmed in grainy under and over exposed black and white with no dialogue. We kick off with a figure, meant to represent God, committing suicide by disembowelling himself; the corpse spawns a mother earth body and it is dragged up a clif...( read more)
The opening shot evoked the greatest case of psychotic bizarreness I've ever seen in any film. It was scary, trance-like, and that rarely happens these days! I don't usually get nightmares (Or don't remember them), but the first 5 minutes are probably what they would be composed ...( read more)
if you like bluffing that you're into heavy really heavy shit, this is your movie, this is not scary it's fuckin disturbing, it's so beatifully revolting and twisted i just love it i got hooked at the first scene.
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