Liquid Sky Equals Pure Absurity (In a Bad Way)

After Liquid Sky ended, I laughed hysterically.

More accurately, I laughed like a madman as I was walking out of the theater. I had to get some sweet abbreviation soda (Dr. Pepper as it is called in most circles) and a bag of baked Dorito's chips just to make sure I was not losing my marbles. I came to see Liquid Sky with an open mind and no expectations. I had no idea what I was expecting.

Well, this lack of expectation really, really screwed with my head.

And no, I actually did laugh out loud (Explaining it to some people was no easy task), get a soda and some chips after seeing this movie, because not only was this movie bad, it was BAD. It was bad because of its acting, it was bad because of its writing, it was bad because of its special effects, it was bad because of its nonsensical plot. I love art house films and films with unconventional thoughts but Liquid Sky was just, well BAD!

Yes, this movie is a cult favorite, but to me, it was BAD to the point where I felt I was in a drug-induced nightclub. It is an experience I do not want to take again. Liquid Sky was a softcore porno, art house flick gone awry, low budget alien movie, low budget movie overall, and an exercise of how not to make an art film. I find the ideas of punk culture, free love and drug abuse on film facinating but I would easily appreciate the ideas the movie was playing around with had it not been for its aimless execution.

Still, I need to concentrate on the themes of the movie is addressing. The aliens in the movie are addicted to people addicted to heroine. Thanks to Margaret, the aliens become addicted to orgasms and heroine altogether. This results in the funniest lines, intentionally or otherwise, ever to be uttered ("I kill with my c*$t.). You also have the lonely woman and the German scientist looking out the window with the telescope. Both are voyeurs, with the scientist explaining what is really going on. The focus is no longer on the aliens anymore, it is on Margaret screwing anyone she finds and vaporizes them upon orgasm! So if Liquid Sky is not really a science fiction movie, then it is a skin flick masquerading as a science-fiction flick and an art film.

Then you have Margaret constantly painting and dressing herself, especially after she has lethal sex. Could her actions represent the danger of sex with sexually trasmitted diseases? Margaret vaporizing people with sex alone can represent someone infecting other people with AIDS or any other condition imaginable. If you take out the aliens, you could have Margaret as the "alien" and she would vaporize people with her libido alone!

Still, Liquid Sky deserves the "High Caffeine Award."

- Kristopher