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2015 GC:G33 Exit Vs Perfumed Nightmare
Topic Started: Jul 14 2015, 02:09 AM (723 Views)
javierquintero
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SCFZ GENRE CUP 2015
GROUP STAGE - THIRD ROUND


Match 033

GROUP E

On this thread voting will be on


Exit (Exit, Australia, 2011) Marek Polgar
Manager: White Nyte
Genre: WORLDS IN DECAY: SCI-FI HALLUCINATIONS AND NIGHTMARES
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Perfumed Nightmare (Mababangong Bangungot, Philippines, 1977) Kidlat Tahimik
Manager: Rischka
Genre: EXISTENTIAL ROAD TRIPS


Participants will have seven day to issue their votes. Therefore, this match will end on Monday July 20th at 9:00 pm (GMT -5, Bogotá, Lima *If you are not sure about time please check my local time going to my profile information

After the voting period is over, the votes will be counted and the results published.

Each user can vote on any match as long as s/he has watched both films paired against each other. Please cast your vote using the titles of both films in the following manner:


EXIT – 1 or 0
PERFUMED NIGHTMARE – 0 or 1


And kindly BOLD your selection, if possible.

Managers are not allowed to vote on matches their own directors participate in, so White Nyte — manager for Exit and Rischka– manager for Perfumed Nightmare, cannot vote in this match.

During Group Stage, each genre will have three matches. By the end, according to victories, votes for and votes against, those with best scores will pass to second round.

If you have yet to see either film and still don’t have access to them, please send me a pm so I can assist you locating the the films to view.

VOTERS ARE REQUESTED TO POST THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE COMPETING FILMS ALONG WITH THEIR VOTE. THANK YOU.
Edited by javierquintero, Jul 14 2015, 02:14 AM.
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exit – 0
perfumed nightmare – 1

perfumed nightmare is charming in all the right ways, and lots of fun throughout. i enjoyed it a lot. exit never grabbed me. it felt in a lot of ways more like a concept than a movie, thankfully not in a christopher nolan kind of way, but like a saramago novel without the humor.
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I'm not sure that Exit was actually any good, but it's mood left a lasting impression. It's a movie I wanted to like more than I actually did. Perfumed Nightmare was joy.
Edited by john ryan, Jul 16 2015, 02:41 AM.
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Perfumed Nightmare is worth it just for the closing credits, but it was enjoyable throughout. The Saramago comparison for Exit is apt - the premise could make a great Saramago novel, but what makes Saramago great is his prose.
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A few years ago a friend of mine and I were walking down the street of the drab little Korean city we lived in, talking about a movie we'd just seen. He'd liked it, I hadn't. We got into a bit of an artistic debate.

HE: I admire anyone who makes a film. Or writes a book or paints a picture.

ME: Not I. Anyone who makes a film or writes a book is doing one of two things: either his or her small part in enriching the medium or his or her small part in degrading it. Or perhaps better to say: doing his or her small part in making the world a better or a worse place. There are way too many movies and books out there, and most are directed or written by people who not only lack talent, which is bad enough, but who've never seen anything of the world, never examined anything around them very closely or thought about anything very deeply, watch too much damned TV, and have nothing to say. And it's not just the action movie stuff or the so-called beach reads about lawyers caught in conspiracies, seems every time I watch or read something "serious" and critically acclaimed these days I have the same reaction: a dead duck! The ideas are academic and second-hand, you can just tell who's got a degree in Film Theory or English Lit. And if they get their acclaim early they're never gonna know anything. Look at Tarantino, still working off the same wannabe's ideas of "cool" as when he was an unloved and unlovely little video store clerk, and he's an old guy now. There's been zilch development in Quentin's worldview between the ages of 16 and 50. He's gonna die a 90 year-old man still trying to reinvent the spaghetti western. That's sad.

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These two films reminded me of that conversation. Both are "indies," but they come from different worlds. Though the faux-naïf tone wore thin for me, as faux-naïf does, there was at least something going on in PERFUMED NIGHTMARE. This Kidlat Tahimik had obviously lived a little, been around, had something to say that he needed to say. I can see how he wanted to avoid another Third World polemic that no one but like minds would ever see, but I still think his interest in being cute worked against him. It seems to me that there are a lot of things he's really pissed off about, but the cute dulls the edge. Anyway, a lot of invention for nil budget, some memorable moments, and even if I didn't enjoy the film too terribly much I'm glad this Filipino oddball is out there and has been able to make films.

EXIT strikes me as a young director with only a kind of nifty notion attempting an indie "Hollywood calling card." Just making a movie to make a movie, echoes of MATRIX, CUBE, and other such nifty notion movies. The largest city I've ever lived in was a million people, and that for only a year, and I disliked the experience intensely, so matters aren't helped that I've never been possessed by the vague urban anxiety that seems to be what the director's most intent on capturing here. I couldn't even figure out what was going on in this movie, actually, which I'm inclined to try to do if I even remotely care about what I'm seeing.

EXIT – 0
PERFUMED NIGHTMARE – 1
Edited by Karl, Jul 18 2015, 07:40 AM.
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Neither of these films did too much for me. Being familiar with the local production aesthetic, Exit just reminded me of the highbrow TV shows that have come into vogue here in recent years. It had many striking shots of cityscapes but while these were meant to evoke a dystopian chill, they were perhaps too clinical to be immersive. There were a handful of lurid scenes but the cryptic plot was vague more than anything, and never shook off its drabness.

The hints of whimsy in Perfumed Nightmare were both a good and bad thing: it felt easy-going, but also frivolous and meandering. Nonetheless, it gets my vote for having more imagination and freedom with its own limited resources than its opponent.

EXIT – 0
PERFUMED NIGHTMARE – 1
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Tahimik is a playful provocateur. He knew most of the clichés about the Third World imagined from the industrialized countries and put them all in a single work. Its sound treatment is also delightful and rich in meaning.
I think Exit was a film full of good intentions and ideas, but it failed in regards to creating some powerful images to be more engaging. I felt the visual solutions and motifs were too generic that the intention of codas and repetitions seemed to be more a limitation than a (narrative/poetic) strategy.

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This set of matches has now ended, correct?
Edited by john ryan, Jul 20 2015, 09:29 PM.
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Not yet. They will end in 4 hours and 12 minutes.
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kinda wish i could vote for exit :shifty: although i haven't watched it

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for those who enjoyed perfumed nightmare, kidlat is 72 now and still making films though they are somewhat difficult to see. i've only seen this one and turumba which i like even better
Edited by rischka, Jul 20 2015, 11:09 PM.
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VOTING IS CLOSED

EXIT - 0
PERFUMED NIGHTMARE - 8


Congratulations to Rischka and her genre EXISTENTIAL ROAD TRIPS

Thanks a lot to White Nyte for bringing us EXIT as part of the genre WORLDS IN DECAY: SCI-FI HALLUCINATIONS AND NIGHTMARES

Edited by javierquintero, Jul 21 2015, 02:03 AM.
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