[UA] UA movie of the year

[Peter Kisner]

It sounds like an interesting idea, and the trailer certainly makes it
look compelling.  Too bad about the suck though.

If it was on Netflix I'd probably rent it anyway, but doesn't look
like there's a convenient way to get hold of the thing on the cheap.


On 6/10/07, John Tynes <john at tynes.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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