User Reviews

"Well, that wasn't very good, was it?" That's what Dan Aykroyd's Leonard Pith-Garnell would probably say if he were presenting this on "Saturday Night Live" in a segment called "Bad Avant-Garde Film". I mean seeing a fly go on a naked woman's still body for about 25 minutes with Yoko Ono doing several wailing noises and hearing some stringed instruments playing off-key as a score while more flies come on the body can be bloody awful! But I admit I did get some amusement out of some of those Yoko "sounds" which was why I half thought of Aykroyd in his best snooty voice as Pith-Garnell. And I also half-wondered if that woman-played by Virginia Lust-was supposed to be dead. And did Yoko's husband John Lennon provide the music in the second half? Questions, questions. And since I've probably spent more time writing this comment that I probably should have, I'll just say this short Fly is definitely an acquired taste especially for those who LOVE avant-garde films.

Have you ever wanted to watch a fly crawl around for a half hour? Apparently John and Yoko did, and unfortunately they filmed it. Their mostly static camera follows a fly as it crawls around a naked woman's body. The fly, shot in extreme close-up, scurries around her toes, eyelids, nipples, and yes, even ventures into her netherworld. While there is something interesting about the juxtaposition between the erotic body and the disgusting insect, the film is mostly an exercise in boredom. It doesn't help that high-pitched moaning and Yoko yelps constitute the soundtrack. This is what happens when two people get so much praise they feel that any idea that pops in their head deserves to be brought to the public eye. This film is exceedingly painful to watch, even though it clocks in at 25 minutes.