Speaking of watching really terrible and definitely outrageous foreign films and thinking they were brilliant, “Pistol Opera” is a movie I found in my early days of discovering Netflix. I had rented this awesome movie called “Samurai Fiction” (it’s named a samurai movie for the MTV generation). I think it was made in the late ’90s, but anyhoo, It was a REALLY cool, funny, and hip movie, I thought. Especially because I saw it with my older aunt and her cool hip friends I was like, soooo cool for laughing at the same parts and stuff. AND for reading subtitles. I was so legit.
Anyway, attached to that film was the trailer for “Pistol Opera”. As you can tell from watching the trailer below, it is the most artistic piece of nonsense ever. I thought it was really beautiful and SO Important and stuff. And this was before my philosophic and existential meanderings of community college. But yeah! This trailer definitely reminds me of my pseudo-pretentious art film phase. I actually rented it, and was HORRIFIED out how awful it was. It might have been a joke it was so bad. Maybe I just didn’t get it, but the characters would inexplicably pose and speak in haikus and kill each other and my 14 year old self was just terribly confused.
It temporarily brought me out of my pretentious movie phase. I think I might need to watch it again, just to see if the same view holds. Oh gawd, it was so bad. I still love the trailer though. I think the movie was just raw footage for someone to make the best trailer ever.
