THE VOICES

Describing this movie is truly a difficult task, so i will leave it to the Wikipedia summary to do my job for me

"Jerry is an upbeat man who works at a bathtub factory, and lives in a modified apartment above a bowling alley with his dog, Bosco, and his cat, Mr. Whiskers. Jerry is a schizophrenic who chooses not to take his medication and enjoys delusions and hallucinations that manifest in the form of his pets talking to him. Bosco often represents his good intentions while Mr. Whiskers represents his more violent nature"

and that brief summary does not get into how the movie explores his deep trauma of childhood abuse, and a mentally unstable mother who also heard voices, which led to her death. Jerry is a truly sick individual who dose not want to kill, but feels forced to by something deep inside him. a lot of the horror is watching Jerry struggle to cope with his hallucinations, violent urges, and past trauma. the movie is deeply disturbing, and still make me feel very uneasy to this day. every seen of Jerry's childhood makes me feel deeply uneasy, which is why i love this movie so much.

I love this movie for the exact same reason I love Twin Peaks. It's a bright, charming and wacky over-world with a glimpse of the darkest under belly I have ever seen in TV. I love the Edward scissor-hands type of world this movie creates, and then just destroys it with some Henry Portrait of A Serial Killer thrown in to make extra freaked out.

but not only is this movie deeply disturbing, it also works as a great comedy. there is a lot of genuinely funny moments in between the horror that sort of makes the horror even more jarring and soul crushing.

so if you want a funny, yet deeply disturbing look into mental illness and family trauma, i highly recommend the voices.

also please take your pills people. even if your cat tells you not to.

-------HALLOWEEN 2021 UPDATE-------

This movie is genius. it creates a lovely fantasy world by showing Jerry's Hallucinations as reality, then it strips everything away and shows you the way things really are. and the way things really are is Jerry is deeply disturbed and hasn't even begun to work through his trauma. and a large part of why this movie holds up as well as it does is how it shows that trauma.

moments that may have lasted only seconds or minutes all fight each other for attention in violent screams all at once that make you feel just as unsafe and small as if you were a defenseless kid again. its uncontrollable (not permanently of course), random, and effects the way you interact with every part of the world. the way this shows that... makes me tear up every-time i watch this movie.

oh yeah and the fairy-tale stuff is also really fun and light.

i'm dead serious when i say i may have to get a tattoo of Mr. Whiskers calling Jerry an unstable cry baby.

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