LeonLouisRicci
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Packed with Contemporaneous Counter-Culture Icons...Kris Kristofferson (Debut)...Gene Hackman...Karen Black...Harry Dean Stanton and Others...
It's One of those "In-Flux" Movies that was the 1st Wave of Cinema's "Freedom-Flag" Waving All Over the Late 60's-Early 70's Landscape with Celebratory "Chutzpah" resulting from, Finally, the "Death of the Motion Picture Production Code", Known as "The Code".
It was Slowly being Replaced by a "Rating System" that Tried to Define Content for Audience Awareness.
Some of the Films that "Exploited" or Tapped-In to the "Youth-Market" while Studios and Movie Muckety-Mucks" were Caught "Sleeping" Without a Clue.
Kristofferson does Fine and Adds 4 Songs, but the Acting Honors Go to Harry Dean Stanton as Pike's Heroin-Addicted Best-Friend, Karen Black as the "Girl', and in Limited Screen-Time a Perfectly Apt Gene Hackman as a Dino-Narc.
This is a Little Movie with a Lot on its Mind and Delivers the Drug-Music-Scene with a Verisimilitude that isn't Always an Easy Thing.
Gritty, Gripping, Entertaining Look-See at some of the Aftermath of the "Revolution", its Down-Home Residue and Unfiltered Unmasking that was, Frankly, Impossible or at Least Extremely Difficult During the Stranglehold that was "The Code".
Above Average and...
Worth a Watch.
It's One of those "In-Flux" Movies that was the 1st Wave of Cinema's "Freedom-Flag" Waving All Over the Late 60's-Early 70's Landscape with Celebratory "Chutzpah" resulting from, Finally, the "Death of the Motion Picture Production Code", Known as "The Code".
It was Slowly being Replaced by a "Rating System" that Tried to Define Content for Audience Awareness.
Some of the Films that "Exploited" or Tapped-In to the "Youth-Market" while Studios and Movie Muckety-Mucks" were Caught "Sleeping" Without a Clue.
Kristofferson does Fine and Adds 4 Songs, but the Acting Honors Go to Harry Dean Stanton as Pike's Heroin-Addicted Best-Friend, Karen Black as the "Girl', and in Limited Screen-Time a Perfectly Apt Gene Hackman as a Dino-Narc.
This is a Little Movie with a Lot on its Mind and Delivers the Drug-Music-Scene with a Verisimilitude that isn't Always an Easy Thing.
Gritty, Gripping, Entertaining Look-See at some of the Aftermath of the "Revolution", its Down-Home Residue and Unfiltered Unmasking that was, Frankly, Impossible or at Least Extremely Difficult During the Stranglehold that was "The Code".
Above Average and...
Worth a Watch.
A Singular "New-Wave-Cult-Movie"...Nothing Like it Before or Since.
This Bizarre, Blow-the-Mind Uninhibited Gonzo (but focused) Peek at the "Club-Scene" Circa Late 70's Early 80's.
A Completely Decadent Descent by the "Artistic" Crowd in New York City (pre America's Mayor), Framed with Ultra-Colored-Loved by Film-Makers and Performance Artists Getting Off on Getting-Down to the "Nitty-Witty-Gritty" Utilizing Film as Art to Make Avant-Garde Art.
"Liquid Sky" (a euphemism for heroin) is a "Classic" Love it or Hate it Experience.
Like a Psychedelic Trip where What-Happens is an Individual Thing, solely Based on the User-Set-Setting.
You Either Get-With-It or Not...Most Will NOT.
What Can Not be Denied is the Movie's Unique, Ground-Breaking Attitude about Many Things, especially Movie-Making.
A Decidedly Duel-Lead-Performance(s) from Anne Carlisle as "Margaret" and "Jimmy"... Captures the "Show", along with the Make-Up, Cinematography, and Story. A Conglomerate of Intrigue, Mystery, and Slice-of-Life Story-Telling, each Reaching for a Certain Profound, but Who Cares? Message of Cinema Verity, and Pop-Culture Sub-Headlines Beneath the Headlines.
A Barely Describable, in Common Parlance, Movie that is Entertaining, Out-There, and is so Pretentious in Every Thing it Presents, it Can Not Be Ignored as an "Underground" Film for Those that Live and Breathe "The Underground".
Others, Might Want to Avoid the Future-Shock of the Whole Thing, and Move Along, because what is Seen Here is Unavoidably Unsettling.
This Bizarre, Blow-the-Mind Uninhibited Gonzo (but focused) Peek at the "Club-Scene" Circa Late 70's Early 80's.
A Completely Decadent Descent by the "Artistic" Crowd in New York City (pre America's Mayor), Framed with Ultra-Colored-Loved by Film-Makers and Performance Artists Getting Off on Getting-Down to the "Nitty-Witty-Gritty" Utilizing Film as Art to Make Avant-Garde Art.
"Liquid Sky" (a euphemism for heroin) is a "Classic" Love it or Hate it Experience.
Like a Psychedelic Trip where What-Happens is an Individual Thing, solely Based on the User-Set-Setting.
You Either Get-With-It or Not...Most Will NOT.
What Can Not be Denied is the Movie's Unique, Ground-Breaking Attitude about Many Things, especially Movie-Making.
A Decidedly Duel-Lead-Performance(s) from Anne Carlisle as "Margaret" and "Jimmy"... Captures the "Show", along with the Make-Up, Cinematography, and Story. A Conglomerate of Intrigue, Mystery, and Slice-of-Life Story-Telling, each Reaching for a Certain Profound, but Who Cares? Message of Cinema Verity, and Pop-Culture Sub-Headlines Beneath the Headlines.
A Barely Describable, in Common Parlance, Movie that is Entertaining, Out-There, and is so Pretentious in Every Thing it Presents, it Can Not Be Ignored as an "Underground" Film for Those that Live and Breathe "The Underground".
Others, Might Want to Avoid the Future-Shock of the Whole Thing, and Move Along, because what is Seen Here is Unavoidably Unsettling.
Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, Affable, Friendly-Faced, Hard-Bodied, Ex-Wrestler Turned Global "Super-Star" Actor/Icon, has Waffled Between Mostly Family-Friendly Comedy-Action Movies with an Occasional Diversion to Gritty "Hard-R" Action-Thrillers.
In this One, the Performer seems "Shy" as He Goes Through the "Brain-Dead" Machinations of "Take-No-Prisoners" Straight-Up Revenge-Thriller, with the "Mission" is the Only Thing, as He Seeks the "Ring' of"Bad-Guys" Responsible for an Overall Betrayal and the Death of His Brother After a Successful Heist where "The Rock' was "The Driver".
Dwayne's Anti-Hero and His Hesitant but Fatal Accomplishments Full-Filling His Mission is Sort-Of, but Not Really a Distraction During the Proceedings.
Opening-Up for Billy Bob Thornton as a Troubled-Cop to Steal the Show.
Both Thornton and Johnson are Given Plenty Family and Back-Story (almost too much) and the Race-is-On to the "Twisty" Conclusion.
The Overwhelming Amount of Drama and Angst Almost Suffocate the Revved-Up Action, but it is a Semi-Wild Ride Getting to the Extreme Conclusion.
Worth a Watch.
In this One, the Performer seems "Shy" as He Goes Through the "Brain-Dead" Machinations of "Take-No-Prisoners" Straight-Up Revenge-Thriller, with the "Mission" is the Only Thing, as He Seeks the "Ring' of"Bad-Guys" Responsible for an Overall Betrayal and the Death of His Brother After a Successful Heist where "The Rock' was "The Driver".
Dwayne's Anti-Hero and His Hesitant but Fatal Accomplishments Full-Filling His Mission is Sort-Of, but Not Really a Distraction During the Proceedings.
Opening-Up for Billy Bob Thornton as a Troubled-Cop to Steal the Show.
Both Thornton and Johnson are Given Plenty Family and Back-Story (almost too much) and the Race-is-On to the "Twisty" Conclusion.
The Overwhelming Amount of Drama and Angst Almost Suffocate the Revved-Up Action, but it is a Semi-Wild Ride Getting to the Extreme Conclusion.
Worth a Watch.