Rating of
3/4
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
SIngli6 - wrote on 09/22/12
Watching 'Pontypool' is an experience akin achieving Nirvana through the sexual penetration of the ears; the pain is horrendous, but the whole experience is just too unique to not be beautiful. With 'Pontypool', you marvel at its claustrophobic storytelling, but soon you find yourself losing your precious sanity as both the diegetic repetition of words and the mimetic repetition of scenes fills you with fury at how easily and justifiably the filmmakers are getting away with disorienting you. Its constricted narrative conveys a central theme that things lose their meaning when they are perpetually repeated, which suggests that as the film loses meaning it gains more of it.
If I wanted to be pretentious, and I am in a pretentious mood tonight, I'd say it's like someone turned Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle into a George A. Romero movie.
