>>5920316>>5902689>JUST MAKE EVERYTHING OBVIOUS, revisitedI suppose that WOMAN KING film exemplifies the aesthetic absurdity of what occurs when you MAKE ALL THE MEANINGS REALLY OBVIOUS like what the anon here wanted,
>>5917812perhaps modern audiences or demographics demand this, they cannot endure the intellectual suspense of the unexplained lol.
The way I approached this film was to imagine that someone took Grace Jones from that Conan The Destroyer film, and tried to make a vaguely historical fiction about her lol set in Benin / West Africa the Dahomei Agojie warrior amazons etc.
I think the film would have been far more artistically coherent if they fully embraced like a blaxploitation / grindhouse cinematography for it, like got Robert Rodriguez the Desperado guy to direct it or something, or made it into Django Unchained lol
Instead the film took itself and its moral and political message INCREDIBLY SERIOUSLY (which is absurd, because the narrative events depicted were invented, but just with some historical names attached) yet was also very coy and tentatively timid in its sexless treatment of subject matter (look, it is about chained women war captives being auctioned). The most strange image of this film to me was this pic related. I think the director wanted to create like a historically culturally situated authentic? image of female empowerment, some sort of warrior woman bonding ritual that conveyed a really uplifting message.
But anyone watching this film scene (it looks like some sort of Slaanesh or maybe Khorne blood for the blood god sacrifice, I jest not, they anoint these demonic goat totem horns with lifeblood from the warrior sisterhood women's slashed limbs) anyone who watches this scene is confronted with this utterly perplexing juxtaposition. It isn't historically accurate - but it looks ? accurate?? but there is sort of uplifting modern female empowerment tone, empowering music and chanting? Over shadowy firelight and darkness, mise-en-scene reminiscent of grindhouse gore horror? What is this??
