A short parable with pronounced existentialist character , fine irony, a bear couple and their friends, fragile border between reality and dream and a huge owl. Short, smart portrait of every day life in its dark aspects, with wise - delicate - precise manner.
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All the world's a stage (With a deplorable cast)
Rectangular_businessman29 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
"A dream? Impossible. You can't dream in this world."
An absurdist play by Alberto Vazquez, director of Birdboy: The Forgotten Children and Unicorn Wars.
Partly a bizarre black comedy, partly existential horror, "Decorado" is quite an interesting spectacle. It's very fun to watch, but at the same its pretty somber in the way in which the main protagonist eventually gets lost into the fakeness of a staged world: His wife sounds like a robot, characters randomly advertise coffee, a laugh track plays in the background, as some sort of ghastly sitcom...
In times like this, so filled with clickbait articles filled with misinformation, where even art itself is being slowly taken over by artificial intelligence apps (Which might look technically impressive at first glance, just to reveal several grotesque features the more attention one pays to it) it's easy to empathize with the main character, particularly his increasing despair in one of the final scenes, leading to a rather sinister "happy ending".
I think this might be the best work of Vazquez, in my opinion. Pretty haunting and darkly entertaining. With emphasis in the dark part.
An absurdist play by Alberto Vazquez, director of Birdboy: The Forgotten Children and Unicorn Wars.
Partly a bizarre black comedy, partly existential horror, "Decorado" is quite an interesting spectacle. It's very fun to watch, but at the same its pretty somber in the way in which the main protagonist eventually gets lost into the fakeness of a staged world: His wife sounds like a robot, characters randomly advertise coffee, a laugh track plays in the background, as some sort of ghastly sitcom...
In times like this, so filled with clickbait articles filled with misinformation, where even art itself is being slowly taken over by artificial intelligence apps (Which might look technically impressive at first glance, just to reveal several grotesque features the more attention one pays to it) it's easy to empathize with the main character, particularly his increasing despair in one of the final scenes, leading to a rather sinister "happy ending".
I think this might be the best work of Vazquez, in my opinion. Pretty haunting and darkly entertaining. With emphasis in the dark part.
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