HungFist wrote:whoa! Seems like the manga artist who wrote the comics, Uziga, is a bit of an underground legend - the kind of person whose works make A Serbian Film look like a kid's flick as suggested by this long
blog post...
I don't know. This hype about gore and obscenity and shit-eating and puke-vomiting and guts dissecting and entrails ripping and mangling and gore fucking, gets pretty boring to me really quickly. It feels to me like with 1980s and 1990s Death Metal starting the whole cheesy gore thing (with bands like Autopsy, Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, early Gorguts) and then having bands in later 2000 just going at ridiculous lengths to "outdo" the previous bands by making the most ridiculous album covers in some kind of animator software on their computers and trying to outdo the gory lyrics by writing the most childish crap imaginable. It just loses me very quickly. This nihilistic, bed-room imagination shredding paper characters apart, is just pretty much that - shredding a bunch of paper characters apart.
An anime artist such as Suehiro Maruo did a good job continuing on from woodblock painters such as Yoshitoshi, and adding his surreal, bizarre touch to the grotesque. Aesthetically, Suehiro Maruo's works are on a completely different level than that of anything I have seen from this Uziga guy. Suehiro Maruo's drawings are in great detail, and there are many impressions to take in. With this Uziga guy, it just looks like something someone put together on a computer trying to be as "over-the-top" as possible creating fast food in a blender at McDonald's, in my opinion. At this point, I don't find Uziga, or any of these gore people, more offensive than McDonald's.
Maybe Uziga could make album covers for Jig Ai:
http://jig-ai.bandcamp.com/album/jig-ai-2
These "underground artists" make the same generic artwork all around, and it's been around for years now.
I personally think 'A Serbian Film' is a good movie, and that the focus on the obscenity of it was overblown. I personally don't really think 'A Serbian Film' was that shocking, just because it is so stylized and absurd cinematically. Although, I wouldn't call it art, personally. And I don't even generally consider it a movie that had to be made. But at least it blended all these themes of obscene sexuality with the political metaphors of being screwed in the most inhumane way possible, in this absurd movie world where reality and fiction blend together in this "postmodern" manner, creating this hellish "new" reality - in the end it's like the main character is dragged into hell by these demons. For "postmodern" movie making, at least it has a sort of artistic point, and it's well acted with solid cinematic qualities. The obscenity in 'A Serbian Film' has a point to it, in my opinion.
My point being, that gore itself means nothing. It's like putting meat in a grinder, or shredding manga books. And people working at butcheries deal with guts all day long. And these days, we are so fed with gore from watching Spike TVs '1000 Ways to Die' and playing gory video games, and watching gory anime, and listening to gory Death Metal and Gore Grind music, and this and that. We're just so desensitized to it, it's like "whatever".
That scene in Michael Haneke's 'The Piano Teacher' where she cuts her vagina in the bathtub disturbed the shit out of me more than any of these ridiculous gore eating shit fucking images. And why? Because that movie was based in reality and thoroughly depicted this psychotic character to the point of really letting me immerse myself into her.
