- GoldenGun
- Oct 21, 2005
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I mean both things are true, we are given the super acid explanation but the bikers are also summoned by blowing a horn and one of them pulls an arrow out of his neck without it bothering him. It's firmly within magical realism territory.
You mean the Ocarina of Crime.
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- GoldenGun
- Oct 21, 2005
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Not really. At the end of the film, Red quotes Joseph Campbell by way of New Age ultra-kook Stanislav Grof.
Campbell said “the psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight”, to which Grof added that the mystical experience is often harrowing and not very delightful at all.
Grof pushed LSD experimentation as a means of becoming a “psychonaut” - accessing past lives, achieving ‘cosmic awareness’, reliving prenatal memories, contacting demons and UFOs, etc. Grof was an admirer of, for example, L. Ron Hubbard.
The joke at the end, of course, is that Red is so psychotic that he’s swimming - he’s actually achieved the ultimate mystical experience, making New Agers like Grof and Sand look like fuckin losers by comparison.
I was looking forward to your opinion. Did you like the film?
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