Prepare yourself for this (if that's possible).
Most. Intoxicating. Film. Ever. Made. There are no words.
Maybe people on Dreamviews will actually like this. The majority of people I show it to... even those who love the Tool videos, just get a pissed-off look after a few seconds and say "WTF is this??!!" This is actually the strongest influence on Fred Sturh for the Sober video as well as on hundreds of other artists (including Marilyn Manson).
... It's called SURREALISM people!! I KNOW you don't get the story - there ISN'T one!!
Actually it is based very loosely on the story of the same name by Polish author Bruno Schulz, which itself is a fantastic work of surrealism (and actually does have a recognizable story to it) - but the Bros went way afield here and just used the imagery and ideology from the book (plus another of Schulz's masterpieces - I believe it was Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass) and went completely nuts with it. I cannot get enough of this, and it will forever be my Holy Grail - the perfection towards which I will reach and never attain.
One of Schulz's innumerable amazing quotes:
"There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization. "
— Bruno Schulz (Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass)
I am stunned into silence.
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