Perfumed Nightmare tells the satire of a young Filipino jeepney driver who wants to travel to America. When goes Europe, he discover that his dreams of his dream of the great west, is also, a decaying capitalist culture trying to move ahead of its past.
I do not like this film.
I think because I found what its mix anti-urbanism messaging with anti-colonialism upsetting. The way it framed it as something that a foreign country does not have is maybe playing the 'fool' in Kidlat's movie persona BUT I found it very off-kilter. I just cannot really meld this two as one or find it as great way to show the after effects of colonialism.
I guess the point of Kidlat's film is too prove that the innovation and utopia he believes of the West is not as dissimilar with how the changes affect the people in the Philippines. It is chaos, or even fatal - like what had had befallen his father.
Its just too disjunct ideas especially for the setup for Kidlat's movie character. A Science Fiction junkie who wants to be rich abroad. The idea that capitalism/progress uproots the masses is not what I expected it to go on. Shockingly, no notes on racism whatsoever during the Paris sequence except the American guy who bought him there.
Its such a missed opportunity, because except for the spiral section, I think the was film was particularly pointed.
Interestingly, this is often times considered as the film that started the Philippine Independent scenes. Apparently, made out of old stocks from Germany. Though the minimalist and almost amateurish aesthetics, has always been constant of Philippine filmmaking.
Not my cup of tea.
I do not like this film.
I think because I found what its mix anti-urbanism messaging with anti-colonialism upsetting. The way it framed it as something that a foreign country does not have is maybe playing the 'fool' in Kidlat's movie persona BUT I found it very off-kilter. I just cannot really meld this two as one or find it as great way to show the after effects of colonialism.
I guess the point of Kidlat's film is too prove that the innovation and utopia he believes of the West is not as dissimilar with how the changes affect the people in the Philippines. It is chaos, or even fatal - like what had had befallen his father.
Its just too disjunct ideas especially for the setup for Kidlat's movie character. A Science Fiction junkie who wants to be rich abroad. The idea that capitalism/progress uproots the masses is not what I expected it to go on. Shockingly, no notes on racism whatsoever during the Paris sequence except the American guy who bought him there.
Its such a missed opportunity, because except for the spiral section, I think the was film was particularly pointed.
Interestingly, this is often times considered as the film that started the Philippine Independent scenes. Apparently, made out of old stocks from Germany. Though the minimalist and almost amateurish aesthetics, has always been constant of Philippine filmmaking.
Not my cup of tea.