We Are the Flesh

Never trust reviews from people who walk out of a movie. Reviews are opinions stressed by people who watched the whole film. When people write reviews of films they walked out of, that's not a review: it's an uninformed comment.

This is as much as a review as it is an honest opinion by someone who watched the film in its entirety. Keeping in mind that great films shouldn't be loved by everyone.

We Are the Flesh is a cinematic version of dark thoughts and ideas most people immediately remove from their train of thought. As long as you are human enough to understand what is right and wrong in reality, there isn't a single thing wrong with examining dark and even grim thoughts that every single human being has from time to time.

This film explores those themes and presents them in ways that are meant to be hard to watch. These are themes that you normally wouldn't bring up in random conversations with random people. These are themes that aren't meant to be visited often but should be explored at least once. Just to see what they look like. Just to see what dark and grim things you otherwise would not have in your life (by choice) but are curious to see the repercussions from the vile acts that go on in dark places.

For me, We Are the Flesh depicts a horrid version of common, hopeless and deprived humanity. It's a brief example of those dark things I never would allow myself to act upon physically or emotionally. But I find those areas of the unknown panning out visually stimulating. Afterward, I can walk away when the film ends satisfied for experiencing a story that made me think of things I don't want to think about. But I can leave those dark questions answered by putting them behind me and leaving them with this film.

Which to me, makes for a wonderful and well made film.

Rated TV-MA in the version I saw, but certainly not for any television station I could ever think of. Way rougher than that. There is an abundance of flesh, often shown in different color filters, which add impact to the scenes. It is supposed to be set in a ruined city in a decrepit building, where two young people come across a rather disturbed man who seems in charge of the building. He gives them shelter and food, and in return they work to erect structures inside the building. The two are brothers and sisters. It is difficult to say anything more without spoiling the movie. To say the least, it is rather far out. But also intriguing. Certainly not for everyone. Many wold appreciate the creative use of color and shadow in telling the story. I am straddling the rating, as some may rate it higher for the unique approach to film making, and others lower due to the subject matter.

This film's main problem is that it doesn't make any sense. He's trying to be David Lynch and failing. I don't mind the "transgressive" routine, it's that it ultimately doesn't really go anywhere. Ambitious, but ultimately... meh.

Wish I could say it wasn't that bad, I like it, or rather parts of it.

When I saw the poster at a local theater I was thinking this was going to be a Si-Fi horror film. Even the synopsis gave me this ideal, and it was horrifying but more in a human way rather than super natural.

So two kids end up in a place were they meet a man whose out of his mind and the three have bizarre sexual encounters with one another.

I did like the crazy dude in the film, he was disturbing in that horrific sort of way.

Plus, I can't give a movie to low of a score considering it had so much awesome nudity and strong sexual content in it (Just being honesty).

But what I was expecting from the small paragraph that help me get interested in seeing the movie was not what I ended up seeing. I felt the ad campaign was met to be a metaphor of something. We Are the Flesh is very similar to M. Night Shyamalan's the Village in that all it's not what it seems, but with far less story (Or no story at all cause I really have no idea what this movie is about or trying to say).

When the movie starts and I realizes that it's a very small indi film in a foreign language I was expecting far more talking, but a lot of what I got was interpretive movement and in your face nudity (Which is where I think the actual name of the film was met to be about).

So I'm into hard core sex in mainstream movies but whatever the filmmakers wanted me to feel by watching this experimental feature I did not feel (Unless they wanted me to feel horny).

This is a strange movie to say the least. I read some choice words from the director after I watched the movie and I'd still say that there is more to it than just the flesh you'll get to see. And you are going to see a lot of flesh and skin. This is very explicit to say the least. The three main characters have a strange relationship to each other and our main older guy is coming off as a creep.

But as I stated before, this was done to shock and also to appall, but also to really mess people up. You probably will have mixed feelings about the movie or just downright hate it. A movie that can create such passion in the viewer might be onto something. It's not about enjoying what you watch (especially the scenes of sexual nature are not really there to arouse, but rather to make one uncomfortable), but being taken someplace you don't want to be. It feels like this tries to convey a state of society that has gone way too far ... or maybe I'm reading too much into it ...