I just saw The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover again or as I would call it, The Church, The Devil, Mankind and Jesus Christ.

There are probably many ways to look at and read The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover but one of the most obvious one has to be a religious interpretation.

Through out the film a young boy with blond hair, who looks like a Cherub, sings verses from Psalm 51, where sins are admitted and regretted and God is asked to wash them away, so everything will be white as snow. While the boy sings this he washes dishes and his voice is so high that it sounds like something otherworldly, like music…

I don't know if I need to discuss the politics at the heart of the film or not, so I will address them really quickly at the start and then move on to a purely aesthetic analyses of the film. The movie can easily be looked at as a reaction to Thatcherism and the consumer culture created under her conservative regime. The political allegory isn't even thinly veiled and Greenaway doesn't shy away from showing what he thinks of the key players (there is literal "cannibalism" in the film). The movie isn't just about Thatcherism (or Reaganism or any other "ism"s for that matter), it works as an critique of western values and us as people in general; we only…

"What you've got to realize is that the clever cook puts unlikely things together, like duck and orange, like pineapple and ham. It's called 'artistry'. You know, I am an artist the way I combine my business and my pleasure: Money's my business, eating's my pleasure and Georgie's my pleasure, too, though in a more private kind of way than stuffing the mouth and feeding the sewers, though the pleasures are related because the naughty bits and the dirty bits are so close together that it just goes to show how eating and sex are related. Georgie's naughty bits are nicely related, aren't they, Georgie?"

Five notions come to mind, almost immediately, when I begin to think about The Cook,…

***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.***

As any brilliant avant-garde film, Peter Greenaway's absolute masterpiece is an attack to the senses. This attack, however, has the sensual danger of awakening the most primitive instincts of the human being. It has always been interesting to notice Greenaway's past focus on architectonic stillness and provocative imagery with symbolic representations. This film is no exception. Conglomerating bizarre elements and a literally unbeatable sense of humor that abounds in cleverness and intellectualism, this groundbreaking story has obviously received a mixed balance of positive and negative reviews. For those who can grab a book and read between lines, for those who appreciate Ernest Hemingway and Wim Wenders, for those who have…

Seks i hrana uvjek je bila omijena kombinacija svakog muskarca, samo sto je ovde isto servirano sa osvetom.

Rewatch mi je prosao bolje nego sto sam mislio, valjda sto sam sada mogao primjetiti neke stvari sto prije nisam. Najbitnije da mi se svidjeo film jer mi se posebno svida scenografija i kadrovi koji idu linearno lijevo ili desno daje dojam pozorista, svida mi se sto prevladava naglasena crvena boja, cak mi se i kompozicija muzike svidjela, osim djela gdje vec treci ili cetvrti put onaj djecak pjeva, zazelio sam da ga neko udavi u sudoperi. Glumci su dobri, drago mi je da sam pripoznao sada dosta vise glumaca koje onda nisam znao osim Roth koji mi ovaj put nije bio…