Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

framptonhollis Despite its various flaws and drawbacks, "WR: Mysteries of the Organism" manages to be a surprisingly powerful film worthy of analysis and admiration. Twisting cinematic convention, combining genres with ruthless insanity (one could classify this as an erotic documentary, a satirical black comedy, a dark and tragic drama, a Communist propaganda film, and the list goes on and on) and experimenting with Sergei Eisenstein's famous montage theory to a point of nearly incoherent madness. Opening as a semi straightforward historical documentary, it soon springs into manic, farcical action before, towards the end, unexpectedly becoming a poignant and saddening drama. This is avant garde at its most...avant garde! There is plenty of sense to be found within the movie's nonsense; this is a film with messages, some of them good, some of them bad (depending on your perspective). It treats the topic of sex with wisdom and frankness by shoving elements of humor, horror, and painful tragedy into a drug addicted blender and puking the final product all over the silver screen in a manner that is not random, but impressively mind boggling. Dusan Makavejev is considered a mastermind of experimental cinema for a good reason, and he has officially become one of my absolute favorite filmmakers of all time and, while it may not be my favorite of his works (I think "Love Affair" may beat it by a slight margin), it is no doubt his masterpiece.

Jackson Booth-Millard I found this film in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, I had no idea what the film would involve, I only read a little about it before watching, I was willing to give it a chance. The WR of the title stands for Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian-born psychologist and sexologist, his most famous theory was of orgone energy - a vital, primal, non-material element believed to permeate the universe. Basically this film is all about the theories of sex, erogenous satisfaction and sexual repression, as well as social systems and political freedom, it switches between documentary and fictional mode often. The documentary side has some contributions from scientists in the fields of relationships and sex, and public opinions; and the the fictional side involves the romance between a Yugoslav girl and an inhibited Russian skater. The also serves as a homage to the work of Reich, and includes archive footage from propaganda features, and footage of real couple having sexual interactions. Starring Milena Dravic as Milena, Jagoda Kaloper as Jagoda, Zoran Radmilovic as Radmilovic and Ivica Vidovic as Vladimir Ilyich. I agree with critics that this film does not focus on the work Reich, his theories or his free-loving disciples, and I agree that allegorical fictional love story going on is exceedingly clumsy, but I can see why this film has achieved a cult status, it is not a bad experimental documentary drama. Worth watching!

catsoup The movie consists of seemingly unrelated footage of 1.Stalinist propaganda cinema 2.Interviews and documentary footage on Wilhelm Reich 3.Explicit performance art footage 4.An American rock star (Tuli Kupferberg) wandering around New York with an assault rifle with anti-war poetry being read off-screen5.Original footage containing -a uniform-clad women proclaiming pseudo-communist pamphlets (f.e."celibacy is counterrevolutionary!") inspired by Wilhelm Reich's ideas, -a Yugoslav steelworker in dire need of a sex condemning the "red bourgeoisie" -an uptight Russian sportsman named Vladimir Ilyich reciting V.I.Lenin's writings. They interact in quite delirious sketches which contain some violence and naked skin and some humping. The walls are decorated with Freud's and Hitler's portraits as well as with commie agitprop and Hollywood movie posters. Neither the plot nor the dialogs make sense. A huge part of the movie is not in English, but with white hardcoded subtitles. At times they blend with the background becoming unreadable, but as a fluent speaker of Croatian and Russian I can assure you that that too was just another of the quirks intended by the author.

Avery Hudson W.R. - Misterije Organizma (W.R. - Mysteries of the Organism) by Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia, Federal Rep. Germany (Documentary). 1971 documentary features sexual liberation theories of Wilhelm Reich.This fascinating film is in two parts. The first a straightforward documentary about Wilhelm Reich's last years in Maine, where he established a community before being arrested and banned by the U.S. government. His books were actually burned on order of a U.S. court.The second is a fantastic allegorical tale that infuses Reich's theories of sexual liberation into traditional Marxist-Leninist theory. Not to be missed.