It's in those strange, semi-lucid hours that the weirdest stuff happens: Someone does an eye shot of cinnamon After Shock and temporarily blinds themselves; someone decides that 5 AM is the right time to have sex in front of their seven closest friends; someone intentionally tattoos themselves while in a K-hole, for fun.
It's in those strange, semi-lucid hours that the weirdest stuff happens: someone does an eye shot of cinnamon After Shock and temporarily blinds themselves; someone decides that 5AM is the right time to have sex in front of their seven closest friends; someone intentionally tattoos themselves while in a K-hole, for a laugh.
Every shot of Debussy was a shock, every new riff on the same chords a revelation.
Perhaps it sounds dramatic, but when something continues to take away from you, to drain you every day, hearing people's disbelief and anger felt like a shot of adrenalin and it shocked us back to life.
Others make cooking massive amounts of bacon and giving it away to strangers their annual art project, which was definitely more enjoyable than the station with a 'magic button' that randomly gave you either an electric shock, or shot of a blast of fire into the air.
Forest were in a state of shock but Campbell was not finished, the striker finishing powerfully after Camp had parried Dobbie's shot.
Fassbinder's brilliantly sardonic approach decks the future out in high-gloss seventies kitsch (Plexiglas and mirrors, lacquered wood and chrome) and ubiquitous video screens, which reflect, distort, and multiply identities as readily as his panoply of zooms, pans, tracking shots, and shock cuts; his vision of a world out of joint resembles a video game gone haywire.
Shot on digital video, "Chuck and Buck" feels appropriately small and clammy, but its emotions are played for real stakes rather than for easy effects of shock and disgust.
