Gambling, Gods and LSD - The Movie...Finally!

Finally, after 2 failed attempts at seeing it, I found time after my yoga class to commute to The Music Hall on Danforth St. to watch the 9PM screening on the last day of the 3-hour movie. I was ready to immerse myself into it and "ingest Christ" in the process. (One critic described the movie experience as "ingesting Christ" - something I had to find out myself).

The movie had a hallucinogenic feel to it in terms of visual delivery. Pace was slow, spacey and tentative much like the common experience in real life with a few puffs of weed. As much as I was surrendering myself to the movie and taking it at face value, totally open to its message, I failed to see its point…try as I might in giving it the benefit of the doubt. I left after the second hour, not wanting to spend another hour in hoping the movie will redeem itself. I walked away from the theater wondering if I simply just 'didn't get it'.

User Comments:

Genevieve Sechter (April 21, 2003)
To be honest I was a little disappointed as well. It did seem unnecessarilly long and it never seemed to really go anywhere. I did, however, get something from it based on my own interpretations of what the message was. The film was very subtle in its expression, but I think there was a definite meaning to it. I think the message is simply that life is very complex and beautiful and that no matter who you are or where you live, we are all a part of this complexity and wonder. All of us are searching for meaning and depth amidst all of the confusion of existence and every day life. How we search for this meaning varies, just as individuals vary, but the fact that we search for it remains constant, the same way that we are all connected and we are all so very much the same. Comments?

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