6/12/20 - Blood Machines (2020) - 6+/7-/10

Blood sugar sex magik (sub in steel for sugar). Damn cool, a tad bizarre. It tends towards the indecipherable but stresses the experiential. Dropped into a world with its own aims and inner workings. I love when sci-fi plunges you into a world and you get lost in it and fascinated by.

It is overtly sexual, but it also relies on the beauty of the female form as an ethos; an aesthetic apotheosis - literally god in the beauty of a woman. Its all curious, but in a cosmic sense, with a spiritual underpinning in the maternal nudity.

The design of the ships, the guns, the culture; I appreciated the uniqueness of it all and the innate coolness of it. I also appreciated the rule of cool of the story, lacking clear defined goal other than mind expanding wonder. Despite some of the lackings in character definition, story beats, and cleanness in film creation, it makes up with energy, brilliant colorful visuals, and a future-80s aesthetic, topped off with a Carpenter Brut soundtrack.

This mini-series/pseudo-short film was aggressive and spirited with its look and vibe...and I was hip to it.