MAD GOD – A Stop Motion Ride Through Hell

Too depressing for me ngl

This movie reminded me of my more morbid journal entries where I just let the stream of consciousness carry me until I feel better.

At a certain point it all just becomes random words with no rationale to the symbolism, and usually just repeating the same symbolism over and over.

I feel like as a personal exercise that kind of thing is valuable, but as a piece of art, it offers very little. As a critique of society, the movie does little to point out where the system actually falls apart. It just kind of repeats the phrase: "The system is broken, and we're all bad people," and then ends.

As a set of visuals meant to unsettle, you can do that same thing and give it context to a more cohesive commentary about something specific, (Silent Hill 2 comes to mind.) Every scene lacks context for its commentary, it simply presents its ideas and goes "DID YOU GET IT?"

And sure, interpreting a work that's meant to be evocative and thought-provoking is kind of the point, but if all you have to go on is your own knowledge of a given subject and anything you can intuit from the art itself, it stops being a dialogue between artist and viewer, or at the very least becomes one-sided and willingly opens itself to bad or even outright misinterpretation.

I guess I'm just trying to say this missed the mark for me. Its symbolism was too repetitive and didn't have anything to really say that hasn't been expressed in better ways by people who directly address the problems it's trying to talk about. After I came to that conclusion it just became a series of shocking images, and that wasn't enough to carry me to the end, hence why I ended up on this video for a summary.

If the artist got something out of it the same way I do with my journal, then I'm happy. This is just my opinion, after all. I just wish it had tried harder to include me as a viewer with its ideas instead of throwing them up into the ether like one of its grotesque monstrosities and expecting me to swallow it whole.

i watched this movie on 5 g of dried mushrooms. fucked me up for a bit can not recommend but I kinda do, rewatched the movie again and it was way better the second time without the psycadelia xD

Very ironic how there’s comparisons to the holocaust when Jews (zionists, globalists, whatever, they’re all the same) are directly responsible for all the misery this film represents

Holy hell what a ride

7:37

This is very explicitly an allegory for the capitalist system

"To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless." – Spec Ops the Line

3:15 Of course it's a metaphor of "White Guilt". That's all Hollywood cares about, is indoctrinating white people to hate themselves.

Listening to videos like this really makes the movie seem so much more pretentious. Gotta say, this whole “human bad” narrative gets kind of annoying when it’s the only narrative out there. Sure, human bad but maybe human not bad? Nothing against Elvis, he did a good job but yeesh…

ive got scammed into wathcing this.. is just boring af i regret wasting my time on it 💀💀

Hieronymus Bosch's paintings aren't abstract, lol. Try "surreal" instead.

I felt the surgeon throwing out gold and literature similar to how a burglar breaking in a home and not stealing gold/jewelry or literature
(wisdom maybe?) because there’s something more valuable then those things… a seed/ soul vessel to create life is more valuable than any material thing.

The part where they actually WANT to be held captive it reminds me of the start of attack of Titan becase they are trapped in a wall

18:19 Well… That depends on point of view… If you watch properly the house scene at the beginning you can see the stabbing is not simply a homicide, it's a pleasure murder – and not only for the killer. (Yes, the victim's laughing. With gust.)
On the other hand the Alchemist is not the figure of Alex Cox who sends the Assassins, he's the Last Man who try to break the cycle by his scant knowledge. The Alchemist (maybe the Mad God itself?) is the plague mask creature, its lab and experiments are resembling the classic alchemic procedures

Hieronymus Bosch wasn't an abstract artist, he lived in the 15th and 16th century, when abstarct art was still 400 years away.

I don't think he stated this but the 2nd Assassin is wearing different clothing however he is wearing gold kneepads and arm pads instead of grey and has more of a personality.

Why would the guy sending assassins down be called the "alchemist", and not the plague doctor who, you know, does alchemy?

I think the scene where the goblin dude watch one of the woman, pour liquid onto a woman that is naked, was most likely Lust, but other than that I’m not sure 🤷‍♂️ 29:31

The fact you pointed out that Phil worked on ROTJ made me realize the world of Mad God would be a Hutt’s paradise

Ima be honest I think the deformities are basically saying this is what generations of inbreeding does to future generations cause even though the earth is large people are finite so at some point after several hundreds or so years you’ll end up running into a situation where every one is related and because of that it can introduce health issues and deformities!

The tower at the beginning with the lightning and all also looks really similar to The Tower major arcana card. It represents change. Not a big tarot guy just played Persona lol but here is what I found; “The kind of event that the Tower card marks does not have to be something terrible, like a disaster or a great loss. Change itself is a normal part of life that one has to embrace. But it can sometimes strike fear, for it means that we must abandon the truths that we have known prior to this event. The old ways are no longer useful, and you must find another set of beliefs, values and processes to take their place.“

I think a video game should be made

Don't watch Mad God while high. It'll fuck you up

TOWER OF BABEL, bruh