After finally seeing one of Matthew Barney’s notorious “Cremaster” films, I stand strong behind my opinion that he is complete bullshit. I’m sure that somewhere in that crazy mind of his he can validate and back up everything about his film(s). I do see the whole symbolic side of each scene, how his ascension and descention of each level, each representing different social statures, relates to that of a man’s testicles rising and lowering in accordance to external stimuli, etc. In the end the symbolic side of his films almost means nothing to me as it was so painful to watch. It was boring, creepy, and highly and annoyingly unenjoyable. There are abstract videos that I do enjoy watching, ones where the point is not straightforward, however this is not true when it comes to Matthew Barney’s films.
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