jobloffski
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Evil Dead 2 and Army Of Darkness. Just. Mental. 
But both are great films.
I wouldn't personally call them great, but they sure are entertaining as hell. I think I'm still surprised as to how completely different they are from the first one.
Great = entertaining as hell. But of course I would say that where Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness are concerned. The former is a masterpiece after all.
Lost Highway. What the fuck? but a beautiful, glorious what the fuck.
Nah, Lost Highway, piece of piss
Very beginning of the film, Fred is awaiting execution for murdering his wife. The only time you ever see Fred from outside his own head.
Very end of the film: Fred, in his head, is attempting to flee from justice, but outside his delusion he is in the electric chair, he looks around in panic, the electric current is switched on, Fred screams, and yells, and his face becomes distorted and burns a bit, as his death sentence is carried out.
Because Fred has retreated inside his head, we see the execution as it appears to him, him driving the car, chased by police.
Between the opening and closing moments, various aspects of the truth of what is happening are hidden in plain sight, here there and everywhere, mixed among Fred's attempts, in his own head, to remember things his own way, not necessarily how they happened. And when attempts to rewrite history in his head/invent things/invent someone to blame so he can escape his guilt of murder don't work, he imagines himself becoming someone else (Pete) so he can escape from himself. He can't. The whole Pete thing is delusion, and wish fulfillment (Pete is younger, not impotent, in prison due to some kind of mistake and set free).
Fred tries to live in his head, as Pete, but delusions/psychotic breaks inevitably get impinged upon by reality, and therefore, this innocent, blank altar ego Pete is frightened and confused by strange things that start to happen, and his attempt to run with 'Alice' from the strangeness (Fred wanting to be Pete and for his wife to still be with him) is an attempt to flee from the breaking down of his fantasy alternative life. But reality pursues him. He killed his wife, and he has to pay the price. Pete turns back into Fred, who knows he is going to be executed. But he never completely comes back to reality, and his fear/desire to escape from his death by electric chair is depicted by the police chase at the end (which is probably a depiction of sorts of how he tried to run from the police in the first place, so his last thoughts in this life, as he is being executed, are of the last moments in his life that he was still a free man, the moment he became totally deranged and the moments of his execution both depicted in the same imagery.
The mystery man is his conscience, that wont allow him to get away with any kind of self delusion for too long, because even he knows, deep down, he doesn't deserve to.
Or sum shit like dat
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 5/3/2012 12:18:45 PM >
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