Favorite Movies

[LavCat]

I have a large monitor, and I sit very close! But I am very sorry to hear about the cataracts.

I'm still watching Sauna/Filth, once even in slow motion. Unfortunately I can't convince anyone else to see it. If I were the director, I would have cut a couple scenes. Other than that, for me, it is close to a perfect movie. But, yes, subtitles. Unless, of course, one speaks Finnish and Russian.

Cataracts are in the really early stages, but my distance vision has always been what optometrists refer to as "sensitive." I suppose this will be the only time this word could apply to me.

Is Sauna (Filth) horror, political allegory or suspense? I don't do horror. If I want to be scared, I can just call up the kids! Or turn on CNN. I pulled it up on IMDB and it really looks pretty interesting but reviews and commentary didn't really define it. Can you, or is it one of "those" films?

Oh! Here's a way! On a scale of 1 - 10 with 10 being the most graphic, how violent is it?

I like Swedish film!

There is blood. Chainsaws, however, had not been invented in 1595. Three deaths are depicted on screen. However in the first, only the victim's feet are shown, and he was wearing shoes. In addition, there are three dead bodies: one of a man, one of a dog, plus a suicide. For comparison, Sauna is approximately as graphic as Bergman's The Seventh Seal.

Sauna is lumped into the horror genre. I recall one reviewer saying it was "Horror for the art house crowd." Another called it horror for people who don't like horror. For me, what horror there was was metaphysical. As I described it on a mailing list: Sauna is an interesting study of trust and wariness and love, after a war is over, and where hell begins.