Begotten (1990)
AKA: –
Directed by: E. Elias Merhige
Starring: Brian Salzburg (God), Donna Dempsey (Mother Earth), Stephen Charles Barry (Son of Earth)
Country: United States
Language: –
Runtime: 01:12:05
Genres: Bizarre-Surreal, Gore-Splatter, Sexual-Violence against Men, Rape-Sexual-Violence against Women, Self-Harm, Necrophilia, Torture
Plot – Spoilers:
Begotten is a silent surreal movie that begins with a robed man slashing himself with a razor. He then proceeds to disembowel himself at which point a woman emerges from under his robe. She engages with him sexually, rubs his cum on her bushy cunt and is soon pregnant!
The woman delivers a spastic malformed grown man who crawls about before a strange group of people come upon him and proceed to torment him and later, his mother.
Begotten is a good enough watch without assigning any purpose or meaning. However, if you’d like to assign purpose or a philosophical meaning to it all, the credits help in this regard. The first man was God Killing Himself. The woman was Mother Earth. And the spastic man, the Son of Earth.
Had to watch this by skipping 5 secs at a time here and there, painfully slow, but interesting in some instances. To the majority of people the complete absence of dialogue could have made the film feel even longer, but personally I found it to be a bold move. Son Of Earths actor did a brilliant job portraying the frustrating nature of the character. The constant heartbeat heard throughout the whole movie really didnt help the pacing but that feeling of uneasiness it provoked was brilliant. Not an easy hour, the one spent watching this thing. I dont regret the watch, even tho the movie at the end of the ride leaves you with absolutely nothing. 2.5/5.
Does anyone know a dsbm band called Silencer? He used clips from this film for his music video.
This is why I don’t watch the movies on here based on the first few ratings.. the 12 year olds always find the utter shit to be “rather excellent” and actual good movies “too slow”
watching this after 4 shots n a blinker gotta be the goofiest shit ever dawg
Starts of and grabs your attention but the longer it goes on that attention diminishes. Yes it is (imo) an art house film but at the end (for me) felt like an art project. Still it has its moments. Difficult to score though ….. 2/5
perfect
it’s just an excellent depressive black metal background, the idea of a dead God is absurd, God is eternal and one! men slaughtering men off the Devil’s Legion plan. infidelity is crap Blasphemy makes us pigs, be a sinner but don’t be stupid otherwise, you’re on shaky ground and cracks are opening the heat is coming up. fifty thousand years we will live standing in one day looking up naked and shivery fearing the unknown is it left or is it, wright.
maán i was looking for some gore and then this, such a boring movie tbh
Those were the times:
It seems back then you could make a movie like BEGOTTEN, someone takes a look at it and before you know it your second film is starring Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich.
Think of BEGOTTEN as your business card nowadays? Would Disney hire you from the spot for the next Marvel movie. Don´t think so. I really have to rewatch SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE
bitches these days man????‼️
Anybody who doesnt like this is a faggot, plain and simple.
ridiculously pretentious and too long i slept thru it twice still kinda groovy though
its not ideal to handle a razor if u have a twitch
What sort of drugs was the director on? This was just awful and not in a good way. Utter rubbish and thats being kind. 0/5.
I am pretty open to new things, and film is an art from after all, so I gave this a watch. It actually started to hurt my eyes after about 15 mins. I don’t understand why someone who has a message they want to convey would film in extreme, shaky close up with blinding lighting and no focus. it is so grainy, you can’t tell what is going on at any point! Kudoes to EUM for keeping these coming, but this is appaling!
Sounds like libturd shit. I’ll pass thanks.
i normally love some pretentious art, if only to pull it apart and laugh at it, but jesus christ. this was so boring i actually almost fell asleep, no hyperbole.
Mother Nature gives birth to god and his son suffers the consequences. Beautiful without being pretentious, surprisingly.
Thank you for this site – I’d already seen a great deal of the films on here, but now I’ve made it my mission to see every movie you have on file here. Really enjoying it — Thank you for that!
This is rather excellent. For me, the point is “juxtaposition,” and not just by the obvious life and death, but if you wanna follow that thread, then god is dead but man lives on as the offspring of a godless world. But what do I know.