pirates of the caribbean III: at world's end: an epic study of surrealism: no really, think about it

i did not like the first "pirates" movie. i thought it was boring, and seriously when did keira knightly become so aggravating?

the second movie hurt me physically. i was confused and i was bored and i was dizzy from the 5 hour fight scene in a giant hamster wheel and there was too much keira talking out of her jaw and too few close ups of orlando.
and too much creepy octopus head guy. what was that about?

however,
i have renounced my anti-"pirates franchise" ways and i'll tell you why.
the third movie is genius.
the same minds which brought us "little monsters" and "godzilla" have indeed written a magnificently abstract piece of work. a few years ago i saw akira kurosawa's "dreams" and have not since enjoyed a surrealist film.
until now.

does "pirates of the caribbean: at world's end" make sense? no.
does it stick to one plot? no. how about two? nu uh. ten? hehe. not even close.
does time zip by making it completely unnecessary to look at your watch every 5 minutes? um, no. really, really no.
in fact, i think if i had tried to, you know, make sense of it i might have run mad for it's not a sensical film as much as a quagmire of intensely ephemeral plot points. that, along with the multiple captain jacks, the crabs-slash-rocks-slash-hu,-the-rocks-are-crabs moments, and keira knightley's orangey mystic tan... it's practically david lynchian.

yep, as i sat back and let the nonsensical, the incongruous, the dada-esque moments wash over me, it was truly cathartic.

or maybe it was just that i'd been walking around all day and i was just happy to be sitting somewhere air conditioned.
ya, actually that's what was cathartic.
so... um... nevermind.

Comments

Annegirl said…
Pirates 3. The great debate. Haven't seen it, but from what I hear, it WAS the world's end.

I think this would best be settled...with a dance off.
Spliz said…
yes, keira knightly is annoying, and I'm only going to like her in movies where she doesn't talk.

and secondly, when you're facing an entire armada, why does blowing up one ship solve the problem? of all the things that make no sense about that movie, this is the one that bothers me.
Carolyn said…
I have been reading alot of fanboy websites trying to figure out the confusing plotlines in that movie. That was the one plot line that none of them could understand either. It just makes no sense.
Anonymous said…
I'm glad that Keira is so successful at getting the roles where she is supposed to look pouty. What would she do if she *GASP* had to look normal? Hmm?
Em said…
haha... orangey... :)
matt said…
i actually liked keira in domino. it was a gritty flick about a bounty hunter. go figure, a 100 pound-bounty hunter movie. take that "dog: the movie."
Lincoln said…
I bet Entertainment Weekly would publish this as a review of the movie if you sent it to them.
Nama said…
"it's a neverending story, but with no luck dragon."
Jay said…
I liked it.

Keira was hot.

Jack was funny.

Surreal or not, I found deep meaning in the rock crabs.
Chester B. said…
I wish that they would've made the third movie from a video game called the Secret of Monkey Island.

Monkeys are always funny.
Thirdmango said…
David Lynch and Keira Knightley in the same sentence? That is almost David Lynchian.