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Endtrip - We enter the mind of a drug overdosed girl and go on a journey through her subconsciousness (SLVimeo) (Possible NSFW surreal imagery)
Don't inject marijuana, kids.
mainlining Southern Comfort is legal though.
posted by lilburne at 1:25 PM on January 9, 2015
mainlining Southern Comfort is legal though.
posted by lilburne at 1:25 PM on January 9, 2015
For a feature-length version of a drug-fueled end trip, check out Into the Void.
posted by Bookhouse at 1:27 PM on January 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Bookhouse at 1:27 PM on January 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
Bookhouse: "For a feature-length version of a drug-fueled end trip, check out Into the Void "
Or don't, because that movie is a horrible, reactionary, moralistic piece of shit.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 2:18 PM on January 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
Or don't, because that movie is a horrible, reactionary, moralistic piece of shit.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 2:18 PM on January 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
Alternately, there's always the the ayahuasca scene from Blueberry.
posted by juv3nal at 4:10 PM on January 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by juv3nal at 4:10 PM on January 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
That felt like dying. I was really impressed, but I sure can't say I enjoyed it. It felt too much like dying.
I was particularly impressed with the way they suggested real world elements appearing in the hallucinations. For instance, that monster-light thing held up by a huge hand, the thing that looked kind of like the squid robots from the Matrix, sure looked like an operating room light to me. And that moment when the sheet flutters down over her legs seemed very, very ominous indeed.
I wasn't 100% she dies, but then I just re-watched that ending and realized what that gray vagina-thing is that we're falling into. Jesus, is that one freaky, sad cartoon.
(R. Crumb did the tunnel of titties way back in the 60s, though. I think it turned up in the Fritz the Cat movie, too. I'm not saying it was definitely a deliberate swipe, but it is the same image.)
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:01 PM on January 9, 2015
I was particularly impressed with the way they suggested real world elements appearing in the hallucinations. For instance, that monster-light thing held up by a huge hand, the thing that looked kind of like the squid robots from the Matrix, sure looked like an operating room light to me. And that moment when the sheet flutters down over her legs seemed very, very ominous indeed.
I wasn't 100% she dies, but then I just re-watched that ending and realized what that gray vagina-thing is that we're falling into. Jesus, is that one freaky, sad cartoon.
(R. Crumb did the tunnel of titties way back in the 60s, though. I think it turned up in the Fritz the Cat movie, too. I'm not saying it was definitely a deliberate swipe, but it is the same image.)
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:01 PM on January 9, 2015
cjorgensen...thank you.
posted by Chuffy at 5:13 PM on January 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Chuffy at 5:13 PM on January 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
This is why you should make sure not to do drugs right before you die. Much like dying in battle ensures an afterlife spent in Valhalla, dying while in an LSD-induced haze will buy your eternal soul a boarding pass to the Realm of Eternal Madness. On the plus side, at least there are endless tunnels of boobs...
OH GOD NO OH GOD WHY DO THEY ALL HAVE EYES PLEASE CAN I JUST GO TO HELL INSTEAD
posted by Green Winnebago at 5:20 PM on January 9, 2015
OH GOD NO OH GOD WHY DO THEY ALL HAVE EYES PLEASE CAN I JUST GO TO HELL INSTEAD
posted by Green Winnebago at 5:20 PM on January 9, 2015
I'll second the recommendation for Into the Void. It is a serious mind-f***. The section of the movie where the protagonist goes through the Chikhai and Chonyi bardos is the most intense/upsetting thing I've seen in a movie. I didn't really pay attention to the reactionary/moralizing parts of the movie, as I was too busy reconciling the plot with my knowledge of the bardos.
posted by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo at 6:41 PM on January 9, 2015
posted by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo at 6:41 PM on January 9, 2015
...dying while in an LSD-induced haze will buy your eternal soul a boarding pass to the Realm of Eternal Madness.
Perhaps you need a new source.
(Granted, it's been a good 30 years since my last experience, but I have nothing but fond memories of LSD.)
posted by she's not there at 7:59 PM on January 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
Perhaps you need a new source.
(Granted, it's been a good 30 years since my last experience, but I have nothing but fond memories of LSD.)
posted by she's not there at 7:59 PM on January 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
Cool graphics but as a film, it felt like a couple SIGGRAPH demos mashed together.
Reminded me a bit of the operation scene from The Fall though, which is similar/obverse - less CGI, more symbolism.
posted by yoHighness at 8:04 PM on January 9, 2015
Reminded me a bit of the operation scene from The Fall though, which is similar/obverse - less CGI, more symbolism.
posted by yoHighness at 8:04 PM on January 9, 2015
I guess I'm old and jaded, but I didn't see anything particularly cutting edge to that. Sorry. Nthing that it seemed derivative of the DMT trip sequences in Gaspar Noe's Enter The Void, as well as Robert Seidel's _grau (which is supposedly based upon an automobile accident, although I've watched it many times and have never managed to spot any obvious visual metaphors).
FWIW, the most 'realistic' hallucinatory drug sequence I've ever seen is in Matriculated from The Animatrix.
(So what drug was that, anyway?)
posted by doctor tough love at 8:09 PM on January 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
FWIW, the most 'realistic' hallucinatory drug sequence I've ever seen is in Matriculated from The Animatrix.
(So what drug was that, anyway?)
posted by doctor tough love at 8:09 PM on January 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
"Madame, what makes your beard so lustrous? Is it the salt air?"
That is a typical conversation you would overhear at the freak wharf.
posted by ostranenie at 2:17 PM on January 10, 2015
That is a typical conversation you would overhear at the freak wharf.
posted by ostranenie at 2:17 PM on January 10, 2015
Joakim Ziegler: Or don't, because that movie is a horrible, reactionary, moralistic piece of shit.
I've heard Requiem for a Dream described (and dismissed) this way, too - and feel a little bad that such reviewers didn't have the shattering, unrepeatable emotional cinematic experience that I did. Though I can't bring myself to ever re-watch them, Requiem, Enter the Void, Irreversible, and Dancer in the Dark left me wracked with sobs and indelibly marked, scarred even. And I'm thankful for that.
Now the Spider-Man movies (any of them), there's some horrible moralistic turds fer ya.
posted by unmake at 10:25 PM on January 10, 2015
I've heard Requiem for a Dream described (and dismissed) this way, too - and feel a little bad that such reviewers didn't have the shattering, unrepeatable emotional cinematic experience that I did. Though I can't bring myself to ever re-watch them, Requiem, Enter the Void, Irreversible, and Dancer in the Dark left me wracked with sobs and indelibly marked, scarred even. And I'm thankful for that.
Now the Spider-Man movies (any of them), there's some horrible moralistic turds fer ya.
posted by unmake at 10:25 PM on January 10, 2015
Oh, and Endtrip: neat! Hardly disturbing. I might even play one of those dumb 'runner' games if it had imagery like this.
posted by unmake at 10:28 PM on January 10, 2015
posted by unmake at 10:28 PM on January 10, 2015
Oh, and Endtrip: neat! Hardly disturbing.
Really? You got what we were seeing, right? This is some poor woman OD'ing, and we are seeing her visions as she dies. That fluttering sheet is her being pronounced dead. This is a dying woman's last moments of conscious thought, all scrambled up with drugs. Seen in that light, even the giant teddy bear monster and the neon forest are tragic; she's regressing to colorful childhood imagery as her mind shuts down. The needle-stabs and the nightmare shriek at the end, those didn't freak you out, even a bit?
posted by Ursula Hitler at 6:38 PM on January 13, 2015
Really? You got what we were seeing, right? This is some poor woman OD'ing, and we are seeing her visions as she dies. That fluttering sheet is her being pronounced dead. This is a dying woman's last moments of conscious thought, all scrambled up with drugs. Seen in that light, even the giant teddy bear monster and the neon forest are tragic; she's regressing to colorful childhood imagery as her mind shuts down. The needle-stabs and the nightmare shriek at the end, those didn't freak you out, even a bit?
posted by Ursula Hitler at 6:38 PM on January 13, 2015
Ursala Hitler: The needle-stabs and the nightmare shriek at the end, those didn't freak you out, even a bit?
Nope. And I totally got it. There's much more uncomfortable stuff everywhere. Like Irreversible. Or the relationships portrayed on Girls. Or reading about penis implant surgery.
Then again, I don't think things (people/events/experiences) ever directly make people (me) feel things - that comes from their being processed in a certain way.
posted by unmake at 1:43 PM on January 20, 2015
Nope. And I totally got it. There's much more uncomfortable stuff everywhere. Like Irreversible. Or the relationships portrayed on Girls. Or reading about penis implant surgery.
Then again, I don't think things (people/events/experiences) ever directly make people (me) feel things - that comes from their being processed in a certain way.
posted by unmake at 1:43 PM on January 20, 2015
mainlining Southern Comfort is legal though.
Saves me the glasses.
posted by cjorgensen at 6:10 PM on January 20, 2015
Saves me the glasses.
posted by cjorgensen at 6:10 PM on January 20, 2015
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