Matthew Barney / Drawing Restraint 9

Matthew Barney. Drawing Restraint 9. This film was weird. I didn't really get what was going on but I got the feeling that wasn't really the point. The point was not about what was happening but the meaning of what was happening. For me, it was about the subtlety of human interaction. A lot of this film was about the nuances of symbolism. Each scene, though not always directly related to the scene before or after, it did comprise a very slow paced story. Again, not based on narrative or plot but rather on much more subtle symbols. My favorite part(if I could really call it that) was the Construction Dance sequence. You think there is something going on as the movie progresses or you try to figure out if the two are connected but at the end they were not connected at all. You watch the movie in a sort of suspended state of mind, hung up on each scene trying to figure out if there is a point or something you missed from the last scene that will be revealed in this scene. It was frustrating trying to be thinking logically or literally in this movie. It would almost have been better to just think of it not as a coherent film and more as a series of short snipettes of visual information. It was like reading a story that wasn't a story that had a purpose or point and meandered all about without any real breaks or pauses in rhythm but just kept flowing. Overall, weird.