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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
For Adventurous Viewers, an Exhilarating and Worthy Film, September 19, 2005
It's fun to see the wildly divergent reviews below. Some people obviously "get" this film, and others are left bored and uncomprehending. Should you watch it? Did you like "Eraserhead"? Did you like 'Being John Malkovich"? Do you listen to alternative music and read William Burroughs novels and SF and Charles Bukowski? Are you on drugs? Answering "yes" to any two of the preceding questions qualifies you as a good bet for WAX. Blair put a lot into this, and the right viewer will get a lot out of it. I loved it.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
an incredibly creepy, psychedelic tour de force, July 1, 1999
By A Customer
Wax's 100-percent unique story suceeds for the sober-minded viewer as well, but there's no denying its full gestalt when absorbed on other levels. Between its space-time-continuum-conquering protagonist and its eerie sense of nostalgia laced with destiny -- this ambitious film attempts to answer some of life's deepest questions while still remaining understandable to any open-minded viewer. In terms of its fidelity to its plot, it plays fair -- which is quite an accomplishment for its trippy aesthetic. It encompasses so many genres (mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, stream-of-consciousness, etc.) that it trancends them all. The result is the kind of rich, one-of-a-kind cult film that one can be proud to share with his or her friends -- because chances are, they haven't seen it. Wax derives part of its unnerving feel from its documentary-esque exposition: the unsettlingly-voiced narration unfolds like a campfire lecture, and combined with its complementary visuals the effect is nothing short of spellbinding. The plot is complex, to be sure, but it is so well crafted from a technical standpoint (with mesmerizingly effective use of repetition). Critics of Wax can never call it boring, because its plot is so full of effective twists that it will crawl under your skin and stay there. And again, if one wishes to enjoy it without the use of mind-altering anythings, simply turning out the lights will do. This film deserves more widespread viewership, for nothing else than its originality and the sheer mastery of its craft.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A moment of transendance, December 30, 2007
I recommend this movie. Though I have not seen "Wax" in about 10 years, it made an impression on me... There is a particullar scene where the protagonist is sitting at home in his living room, wearing his bee keeper outfit and mask. This made him look similar to an astronaut. On his tv was nasa mission control, co-ordinating a space flight... Now, this movie constantly defies space and time within its own storyline. Characters from different locations and eras of time are in action "simultaneously" if you will. It is as if time is just a physical distance like miles or inches are, and this idea became quite effectively expressed in this scene, as the main character sat messing with some little knick-knacks or whatever in front of his tv, while on the tv nasa fiddled with their stuff while in front of their own tv's and I think there was maybe the astronauts in their capsule as well, plus the activity of characters from another time-era going on... I saw the reflection of my friends and myself in the glass of the tv screen we were watching, and at that moment it occured to me that we were engaged in the same sort of activity the characters all were, but in our own space, in front of our own tv monitor and doing our own small activity... Collectively, we were in different places and times, but connected and present in a single timeless central moment-location, as it were, with the characters on the tv and it was, breifly but rather profoundly, very real and unsettling.
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