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Title: Simply Incomprehensible
Review: This movie deserves either one star or five, so I've given it five. It's not as offensive as others have said because the images are so difficult to discern that one's imagination is forced to fill in the details. If gore and offal are what's desired, the viewer would be more satisfied with one of dozens of low-budget splatter flicks. Perhaps 'Begotten' shouldn't be considered a film at all, but a series of black-and-white art photographs arranged in a semi-random order. The picture on the cover is about as clear as they get. It has a plot and a story, but without the notes that are provided I doubt anybody could know what they are. I enjoy the movie for its extreme artfulness (artful in the sense of being a product of labor), but I haven't been able to watch the entire thing in one sitting. One must be in a certain sort of mood (chemically induced or not) for it.
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