tryptonaut
Holofractale de l'hypervérité
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I could have sworn there was a thread here recently about this movie, but now I can't find it anymore...
Anyhow, I watched it and it blew me away. It is one giant trip into the human soul, it's about a man in search for ever-lasting life and youth, and in the end he discovers that death and rebirth is the secret of eternal life. Or something like that. You could have a thousand interpretations I guess, but it touches all the buttons of the experienced psychonaut.
The pictures are great, especially the trippy space scenes (which I interpret as hyperspace more than real space). They did many of the effects not with CG animation but with macro-photography of fluids and chemicals in petri-dishes. That way they often achieved a very organic trippy look that kind of takes the old 60's light shows a la Jefferson Airplane to a higher level.
And now to the real trippy part. I bought the DVD (only to support this kind of beautiful art, I usually never buy movies, only rent dvds) and on the specials DVD there is this segment called "life in space". It is an extended sequence (probably deleted scene) of Tom in the "hyperspace" part that shows him grow mushrooms on a piece of wood. These mushrooms do very much look like psilocybe mushrooms and he cuts them, breaks one of the caps into a jar of hot water which he then drinks. Then he sits down to meditate and the camera moves towards his head, goes in through his third eye and dives into bright light.
I watched that scene twice now and there's no misinterpretation possible. He definitely grows shrooms that look like psilocybe, cooks them into tea and drinks it.
I think we have a fellow psychonaut in Darren Aronofsky...
Rock on, Darren! And much respect for making that kind of a spiritual movie with a 40 million budget, even the big studios cancelled him on the first attempt.
Anyhow, I watched it and it blew me away. It is one giant trip into the human soul, it's about a man in search for ever-lasting life and youth, and in the end he discovers that death and rebirth is the secret of eternal life. Or something like that. You could have a thousand interpretations I guess, but it touches all the buttons of the experienced psychonaut.
The pictures are great, especially the trippy space scenes (which I interpret as hyperspace more than real space). They did many of the effects not with CG animation but with macro-photography of fluids and chemicals in petri-dishes. That way they often achieved a very organic trippy look that kind of takes the old 60's light shows a la Jefferson Airplane to a higher level.
And now to the real trippy part. I bought the DVD (only to support this kind of beautiful art, I usually never buy movies, only rent dvds) and on the specials DVD there is this segment called "life in space". It is an extended sequence (probably deleted scene) of Tom in the "hyperspace" part that shows him grow mushrooms on a piece of wood. These mushrooms do very much look like psilocybe mushrooms and he cuts them, breaks one of the caps into a jar of hot water which he then drinks. Then he sits down to meditate and the camera moves towards his head, goes in through his third eye and dives into bright light.
I watched that scene twice now and there's no misinterpretation possible. He definitely grows shrooms that look like psilocybe, cooks them into tea and drinks it.
I think we have a fellow psychonaut in Darren Aronofsky...
Rock on, Darren! And much respect for making that kind of a spiritual movie with a 40 million budget, even the big studios cancelled him on the first attempt.
