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Oracle of DelphiMarco Ferreri's 'Tales of Ordinary Madness'
August 10th 2006 00:03
I watched a damn weird film yesterday -Marco Ferreri's 'Tales of Ordinary Madness'. Basically, on his "journey through life," a Los Angeles-based poet encounters people of every description. These include nymphomaniacs, unstable teenagers, and prostitutes. Loosely based on the exploits of Charles Bukowski. Most reviews that I've come across really hate this film.
Bukowski, or Charles Serking, as he is called in the film, is an interesting character, with something to say about why he feels most comfortable living with the ones he calls the "real people": the demented, the abandoned, the impoverished, the defeated, and the damned. It would be interesting to establish why it means so much to him to be with these type of people rather than with other poets -perhaps it is a yearning for a sense of sincerity, that these people are somehow more 'real' than the often pretentious and performative artistic crowd. The film offers no answers to these questions and only provides a few outward details of the protagonist's life. However, there is something poetic in the fact that as the film ends the poet seems like a lost soul, drinking to forget; but, when sober, he is seen as someone who is desperately searching for his muse.
Despite all its bad press, have a look at this film, it's definitely unique.
Bukowski, or Charles Serking, as he is called in the film, is an interesting character, with something to say about why he feels most comfortable living with the ones he calls the "real people": the demented, the abandoned, the impoverished, the defeated, and the damned. It would be interesting to establish why it means so much to him to be with these type of people rather than with other poets -perhaps it is a yearning for a sense of sincerity, that these people are somehow more 'real' than the often pretentious and performative artistic crowd. The film offers no answers to these questions and only provides a few outward details of the protagonist's life. However, there is something poetic in the fact that as the film ends the poet seems like a lost soul, drinking to forget; but, when sober, he is seen as someone who is desperately searching for his muse.
Despite all its bad press, have a look at this film, it's definitely unique.
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