This certainly was a strange film. As I was watching the film I kept trying to organize some ideas or themes this film could be about. Earlier, I felt consumption was a large theme, as many of the main actor (who played several characters) was regularly seen eating forms of jewelry. I felt as if he kept consuming items from a material world or, possibly, that these items were being forced upon him. Later in the film I felt some sort of struggle between natural beauty and artificial beauty. Specifically with the masks and make up, I felt that these were covering up many of the characters natural beauty. To me, the image of the girl in the bird's cage encapsulated this idea. The one character with elaborate makeup and long nails seemed very pleased by the idea of the masking of these characters as did the "emperor" or was covered in green or purple makeup. Both the color and editing throughout the film was eccentric and over the top seeming to cover up the "natural" beauty of the film. I'm not suggesting that one is better than the other, but the elaborate colors and several layers of film created something that, clearly, was not captured on the set giving it a radically different feel. Yet there was so much contained within this film, I feel almost guilty trying to judge it off of one viewing alone.
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