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i must have seen a different film!!

A Masterpiece!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Up until Awakening Of The Beast, the films of José Mojica Marins had been weird, yet still vaguely accessible, but this one was completely baffling—a surreal, drug-fuelled experience full of bizarre imagery that rapidly outstayed its welcome.The film opens with a panel of experts, led by Dr. Sérgio, discussing cases of drug use, the first of which involves a woman injecting drugs into her foot (a horrible scene for anyone with a phobia of needles), before stripping in front of a group of leering men and squatting over a chamber pot; it's a scene that sets the tone for the rest of the film by being totally incomprehensible. After this, things only get even more baffling.The next case sees a young woman taken to a room full of hippy men who are playing musical instruments and smoking weed; the girl takes a puff from a joint, climbs through a window, stands on a table, and—one-by-one—lets each man put his head up her skirt. One of them removes her panties, and then they all laugh and begin to repeatedly chant 'babaloo-aye!', after which the girl exclaims 'my world is multi coloured'. The men all hold up their index finger, start whistling, and poke her in the nether regions. Then a man dressed as Moses appears and sticks his wooden staff between her legs, killing her in the process. Confused? You will be!Several more cases of drug use are discussed, all of which are thoroughly bizarre and involve women getting nekkid, after which Dr. Sérgio describes an experiment he has carried out on four drug addicts in order to study the effects of LSD. While focusing on a poster of Brazilian horror icon Zé do Caixão (AKA Coffin Joe), the subjects slip into a gaudy, nightmarish hallucinatory world—the film's only colour sequence—where Zé conjures up some freakish imagery, including a spider with a woman's head, people in weird masks, a strange creature in a bush that breathes smoke, a human staircase, and buttocks with faces painted on them (I kid you not!). This psychedelic scene goes on and on and on and on, and proves surprisingly boring.Finally, the film returns to the panel of experts, as Dr. Sérgio explains to his colleagues that he didn't give his human guinea pigs LSD: the injections were of distilled water, and the hallucinations were self-induced, thereby proving the theory that drugs are an excuse to release the instinct in a human being, and that if someone commits a crime whilst under the influence it is because their mind was already sick. In short, the drugs aren't bad… it's the people who are bad. It's an abstruse message befitting of a film that is completely bewildering all the way through.

Having recently caught this strange film on Independent Film Channel,it certainly warrants a viewing, if only for the curiosity of Jose Mojica Marins.Primarily,he uses two scenarios: a round-table of psychiatrists discussing drug addiction,and alternate scenes of the addicts in question, who are given LSD as part of the experiment.The poverty and demoralization (particularly of women in Brazil) is explored, and the scenes are stark, turning gradually to crude, horrific and even at times humorous. There is one scene in particular where a young woman is interviewing for a job as a maid and she envisions her prospective employer, who is obese and wolfing a plate of pasta)as a hideous looking Pekingnese dog.Overall a creative and strange commentary on the drug cultures of the late 1960's and 70's.8/10.

I know that this film has a lot of "defenders" - I guess I just didn't get it. I really enjoyed AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL, and have yet to see THIS NIGHT I'LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE - but AWAKENING OF THE BEAST was just too strange and "psychedelic" for my taste.Two-thirds of the film is in black-and-white, and this part is semi-amusing. A psychiatrist relates tales of drug-users that show that all those that use drugs are delinquents and perverts. We have a woman who defecates in a pot for the enjoyment of a room full of men, A woman who peeks from her doorway and does bumps of coke and strokes her donkey (no, this isn't a word-play - I'm talking' an actual donkey...)while the butler bones her daughter, a shady filmmaker who whacks-off while an associate rapes a naive wannabe actress, and so forth. Though none of this is portrayed very graphically - it's still amusing. Then we get into a color portion that has this psychiatrist dosing up four volunteers with LSD, and they have strange visions including Coffin Joe and a series of strange delusions...That's pretty much it with this one, and although the beginning was kinda entertaining, it wasn't sleazy enough to really be any fun. The end "trip-out" segment is just weird and long, and didn't hold my attention. I guess I prefer the more "straight-narrative" Coffin Joe films, as I stated before that I quite liked I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL. The fans of this one can keep it. Mildly amusing, but dull overall...6/10

Awakening of the beast is a good black and white horror brazilian movie. The character of Zè do Caixao, created by Jose Mojica Marins, is in his third apparition (after media-nocte levrerei tua alma and o estranho mund de Zè do Caixao); anyway this is very very different from the others, in fact here he is simply an ironic character that try to explain his world theories, which are very interesting, to some directors, who ask him questions like "what's the life?" or "what do you want from the world?". I am sure that any people that see this movie and like dark irony will be happy to see it.