Malacreanza - From the Diary of a broken Doll
When filmakers
stay true to their style but do something completely different as in the movie
before, you know as a film fan that you will be kidnapped into a completely
different world every single time you start a movie by said filmmaker. CdX,
whose work of art Diabolique just a few weeks ago attracted attention, is now unleashing
his next beast. You recognize from the trailer alone, that it’s definitely a
cdx one, but it seems to be a new genre entirely. But what will await us, when
we turn on the TV and will it be as strong as Diabolique was before it?
Anna awakes one
morning without any orientation. Naked. Where is she? Who has brought her
there? And why naked? There seems to be no answer for any of these questions. But
this is by far not the worst thing Anna has to deal with. Some strange force
seem to have control of any of her movements. So her nightmare has just begun.
At first the
story of Malacreanza seems to be much more structured than Diabolique, but
don’t be fooled by that, because when after 60 min the black screen appears,
you have only one feeling: being helpless. After Diabolique rotated at least
one week in my mind, I now watched the latest work of CdX. When I was, after
watching Diabolique, left alone with a „wow“ in my head, after having watched
Malacreanza I’m feeling crashed and exhausted by a bombardment of pictures,
sounds and a story you can analyse in so many ways, that you don’t know where
to start and where to end.
If you survive
Malacreanza, and I doubt that there will be many people who succeed in their
attempt, the single scenes will extend to their real magic. They will torture
your memory like an endless nightmare that is stuck into your brain, and
returns night after night. Like Anna, the viewer will also be drawn to another
weird strange world by an invisible force. This is amplified by the movies’
language in italian with frozen subs - if you don’t understand both of it, you
will even understand less. The language itself, gives the movie an atmosphere
which is rather rare in movies nowadays. Especially the sentences that are just
read by an ominous voice feel like there’s been a spell, or even a curse casted
on the viewer and the protagonist. Trapped in a world without time you have to try to get
the puzzles to a whole.
As said before,
Malacreanza is build out of scenes, which consolidate themselves to a whole in
the end. I don’t want to spoil, but I want to mention one single scene that
impressed me a lot. Let me call it transformation scene. I’ve named it like
that, but everyone who watched the movie knows which one is meant. For more
than 10 minutes the viewer is enchanted by the hypnotic moves of Shivabel
underlined by a monotonic score, which isn’t meant in a negative way. The
composition of color design, movements and sounds creates a real trip of
impression you will not forget.
But what do all
these scenes mean? If you think, that in the end you'll understand what the
movie is trying to deliver, then think again. This is due to the fact that this
movie doesn’t want to tell only one story, but a few. Everybody will experience
the movie in his or her own way. There is simply no right or wrong, because the
mindfuck you get out of this movie, is only as strong as yourself want it to
be. If you want to analyze every single scene, its up to you, but be aware you will be able to fill pages after pages
with different explanations, but never get all of the possibilities because
they are simply unlimited. It’s a movie that wants to be experienced more than
anything else. Where Diabolique didn’t even noticed you as a viewer,
Malacreanza is likely to throw you on the ground every single time you thought
you got what it wanted to say. And please don’t turn off your player when the
credits roll because after that there might be the last pieces of the puzzle
waiting for you to pick it up.
To sum it all up Malacreanza is much more than
just one simple movie. All of the scenes are comparable to the work of a mad artist
if you view them separately, but when viewed together you’ll find a movie that
is all about its images and the need to piece together every jigsaw so that you
can find its hidden beauty deep beneath the first impression. Alot like the
work of David Lynch, you’ll have to view this movie again and again, to find
every hidden clue. And maybe sometimes you can finally find an explanation
which makes sense for yourself. Everybody who thought Diabolique was
difficult to understand, needs to reconsider this thought because after you
have watched Malacreanza you’ll see that Diabolique is like a walk in the park,
compared to this monstrosity. Watch at your own risk and only if you are willed
to think about the imagery you witnessed. But if you dig this kind of movies,
Malacreanza could be a movie you won’t forget very soon.
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