[UA] UA movie of the year

[John Tynes]

I just got back from seeing DARK ARC, a film that can fairly be  
called an amateurish, pretentious wankfest but that's also ripe with  
UA goodness. It's about a decadent noble aesthete obsessed with the  
power of "charged images" -- images that implant themselves in your  
mind for the rest of your life. He teams up with a "non-sexual  
escort" named variously Lamia or Juxta and the pair stage a series of  
crafted aesthetic moments in the daily life of an unwitting graphic  
designer, attempting to burn a charged image into his brain and alter  
his entire aesthetic sense.

The plot has a couple of nice twists in it, in which we learn that  
the noble and the designer have more in common than we realized. And  
all three characters are obsessed with enacting and reenacting their  
own personal charged images: one, the cover design from a box of  
chocolates; two, the famous medieval tapestry known as The Unicorn in  
Captivity; and three, an obscure nineteenth century painting of two  
gentlemen in a pistol duel.

DARK ARC is really pretty bad. But its premise is glorious and its  
engagement with the premise is absolute. The reenacting of powerful  
images and the conscious attempt to implant new such images in the  
mind of a victim is glorious stuff, real magickal thinking, and I was  
totally satisfied by this experience.

http://www.darkarcthemovie.com/stills.html

-- 
John Scott Tynes
http://www.JohnTynes.com/

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