BOILED ANGELS : THE TRIAL OF MIKE DIANA - Fantasia Film Festival 2018 | Movie Review
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Boiled Angels : The Trial of Mike Diana (2018) Movie Review.
Directed by Frank Frank Henenlotter.
Synopsis :
The handmade comic zines that teenager Mike Diana banged out in the 1980s were retina-ravaging exercises in depravity, seemingly precision engineered to antagonize the uptight right-wingers in the churches, media and legal system of his suburban Florida surroundings. And that they certainly did. Though Diana's lurid, art brut tales of sexual violence and bodily desecration were only ever sold to a small following of a few hundred, paranoid policemen and opportunistic attorneys saw his work as a threat to society (or at least, cynically presented it as such). Following an ugly courtroom process, at age 24, Diana became the first American artist convicted of obscenity. The true transgression, however, was the perversion of justice into which Diana was dragged.
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Vectorize me babe ATN by mutato-nomine.
https://mutato-nomine.deviantart.com/art/Vectorize-me-babe-ATN-38162006
Music :
Please Listen Carefully by Jahzzar
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully
Directed by Frank Frank Henenlotter.
Synopsis :
The handmade comic zines that teenager Mike Diana banged out in the 1980s were retina-ravaging exercises in depravity, seemingly precision engineered to antagonize the uptight right-wingers in the churches, media and legal system of his suburban Florida surroundings. And that they certainly did. Though Diana's lurid, art brut tales of sexual violence and bodily desecration were only ever sold to a small following of a few hundred, paranoid policemen and opportunistic attorneys saw his work as a threat to society (or at least, cynically presented it as such). Following an ugly courtroom process, at age 24, Diana became the first American artist convicted of obscenity. The true transgression, however, was the perversion of justice into which Diana was dragged.
Twitter :
https://twitter.com/CinemaMonologue
Minds :
https://www.minds.com/CinemaMonologues
Letterboxd :
https://letterboxd.com/SoFuLL/
Thumbnail :
Vectorize me babe ATN by mutato-nomine.
https://mutato-nomine.deviantart.com/art/Vectorize-me-babe-ATN-38162006
Music :
Please Listen Carefully by Jahzzar
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Please_Listen_Carefully