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Begotten

  • 1989
  • Unrated
  • 1h 12m
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
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Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.

  • Director
    • E. Elias Merhige
  • Writers
    • E. Elias Merhige
    • Tom Gunning
  • Stars
    • Brian Salzberg
    • Donna Dempsey
    • Stephen Charles Barry
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.6/10
    12K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    3,062
    4,443
    • Director
      • E. Elias Merhige
    • Writers
      • E. Elias Merhige
      • Tom Gunning
    • Stars
      • Brian Salzberg
      • Donna Dempsey
      • Stephen Charles Barry
    • 158User reviews
    • 40Critic reviews
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      • Trivia
        Approximately eight to ten hours of optical work - rephotographing, visual treatments and filtering - were required to produce one minute of film. The total post-production period for the 72-minute movie was eight months.
      • Quotes

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        Title card: Language bearers, Photographers, Diary makers. You with your memory are dead, frozen. Lost in a present that never stop passing. Here lies the incantation of matter. A language forever.

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      Definitely bizzarre, but the meaning is subjective
      Definitely one of the most bizarre pieces of moviemaking you will ever see. You need to sit through "Eraserhead," "Tetsuo:The Iron Man," and the like to have at least some preparation for this one. Not that I am about to claim that I understand what the film's intentions are. If it wasn't for the brief summary on the tape's cover, then I would be completely at loss, and even that wasn't really much help. Then again, as some people below have argued, it just may be some self-indulging mumbo-jumbo, so there might not be any need to stress over the meaning of it. In any case, because people's opinions on this movie are completely bipolar, I simply concluded that it can be looked at as, so to say, "raw matter" or "raw substance" (whichever you prefer), and one should just make out of it what he can, using his/her own perspective, experiences, etc. In other words, it's all very subjective. Personally, I can't say that I got something intellectually fulfilling out of it. I enjoyed the bleakness and weirdness of it all, though we all know how wearisome these things can become. So basically, give it a try if you are into all things out of this world, but you should probably keep you expectations reserved.
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      • Release date
        • June 5, 1991 (United States)
      • Country of origin
        • United States
      • Languages
        • English
        • None
      • Also known as
        • Порожденный
      • Filming locations
        • New York, USA
      • Production company
        • Theatre Of Material
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      • Budget
        • $33,000 (estimated)
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 12 minutes
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.37 : 1

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