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Title: Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
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Gretchen Krich | ... | Mother |
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Sullivan Brown | ... | Young Guy Maddin |
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Maya Lawson | ... | Sis |
| Jake Katherine Morgan-Scharhon | ... | Chance Hale / Wendy Hale (as Katherine E. Scharhon) | |
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Todd Moore | ... | Father |
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Andrew Loviska | ... | Savage Tom |
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Kellan Larson | ... | Neddie |
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Erik Steffen Maahs | ... | Older Guy Maddin |
| Cathleen O'Malley | ... | Young Mother | |
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Clayton Corzatte | ... | Old Father |
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Susan Corzatte | ... | Old Mother |
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Megan Murphy | ... | Murderous Sister |
| Annette Toutonghi | ... | Murderous Sister | |
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David Lobo | ... | Oarsman |
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Eric Lobo | ... | Oarsman |
Guy Maddin reluctantly returns to his childhood home, an abandoned Canadian island, where his parents ran an orphanage. As Guy fulfills his dying mother's request to paint the lighthouse which served as the orphanage, memories of strange events there overpower him. An undercover investigation by child author/detective Wendy & a revolt by the repressed children, blew open a cover-up by Guy's parents. Wendy disguised herself as her brother Chance and discovered that Maddin's inventor father performed outré scientific experiments on the orphans. Written by David Stevens
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I had recognized Guy Maddin with his short movie. I had watched it on my friend's suggestion, and I liked Maddin very much. After that, I was obsessed with Maddin. Maddin's unaccustomed editing and imaginative film language affected me. Maddin's last movie, "Brand Upon the Brain!", had a successful affect on me once again. Maddin's imagination combines his childhood memories in the his last movie. The Director says, "This movie is %96 real. All movie are about my childhood memories."
Maddin is inviting us on a strange journey. He is starting in the present time and going to the past, of course accompanied by Maddin's frantic editing and his abnormal images. Maddin is hovering different types during the movie. Sometimes the movie is turning into a horror movie or a science-fiction movie. Especially in the lighthouse where Maddin used an important factor of tension in the movie. Maddin used Expressionism while composes the lighthouse. In this way, the lighthouse seems like a monster. Creepy, uncanny and strange...
Little Maddin has a despot mother, a busy father and an adolescent sister. These things are causing tension for little Maddin. At this point, the director is benefiting from that tension and changing his movie type. The Director's expression is resembles fable book; simple and illustrated. This expression is adding comic aesthetic to the movie. Also, the director is using sexuality in specific Maddin style. Especially, he is emphasizing human libido. In this way, he is using sexuality with aggressiveness. Finally, Guy Maddin's last movie is hypnotic, stylistic and fascinating. Maddin doesn't frustrate his fans, he has created a great film once again.
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