In ancient Egyptian mythology, a dead person's soul would be weighed against the feather of truth in a ritual called a psychostasy. If their soul was lighter than the feather, it would ascend into the afterlife. Heavy souls were devoured by Maat, eater of the dead. Good films go to hard drive heaven while the recycle bin eats the rest.
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Poison (1991)
A drama directed by Todd Haynes.
4 separate stories take place. In one (presented as a documentary), a child kills his father and has flown away. In another, some guys are in jail. Another story focuses on a scientist who drinks his experiment and gets leprosy and starts to kill people by infecting them and in the other, there are guys outdoors near some old stone walls.
The plots get tangled into a big mess of incoherence. Supposedly, this is some famous gay film, but being straight, I must not have understood most of the faggotry of the overtones. There are some gay guys in the film, but I have trouble seeing how the scientist fits into the gay theme. Maybe he represents AIDS (hah, little laugh). One picture is from the movie and the other is the REAL gay Poison from 1991! Anyway, I'm rating it bad for being nearly incoherent and definitely not worth my time.
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