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.
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.
I couldn’t agree more 🙂
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
Hey girlfriend
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!
You don’t understand because this movie is the work of a fool (not trying to be rude).
My favorite part? (sarcasm). The juxtaposition of classical imagery (eg the grand sky, clouds and moon behind blades of grass!! a river flowing in slow motion!!) amid this nonsensical mess of a job (as if to be some deeply perceptive contemporary artist returning to romantic notions as they best capture the essence of their ideas).
Honestly, if you actually care about what this piece is trying to say, I believe it’s about social inequality: the fact that those who are born in less fortunate circumstances are used by the more organized and intelligent and strong purely with the motivation of achieving “their” goals. That the life of the poor, and “weak” amounts to being dragged into a position without their consent and “cooked” into food for the birds.
And that this pattern of abuse has been going on for time immemorial, which is why it is portrayed in granular black and white.
Please don’t watch and support this work. For instance, I can admit that I probably can’t become the best ballet dancer in Russia at this point in time. In fact, it is very likely a pointless endeavour and I hope that the world would give me such feedback before I wasted 10 years of my life.
Sounds like libturd shit. I’ll pass thanks.
Typical little bitch,do you think I care? Faggot
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.
I actually did fall asleep during this one, a couple of times actually. took me more than a few tries to actually finish the whole thing.
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!
ur literally retarded most pretentious movie of all time :l
DEADD u didn’t lie though
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.
you know absolutely nothing.
I’m not sure the director ever made any statement about God being real. If anything, by referring to his actors as deities, he is stating that God is a fabrication of language??
This movie is only the depiction of a ritual sacrifice.
The director failed to understand that in the production of art he’s communicating with an audience that does not necessarily have the same database of knowledge as himself?
I’m still disturbed by this movie a day later. How does nobody teach art students these lessons in school? Am I actually the blind one? Does this make perfect sense to intelligent people?
This movie was an extremely, extremely, extremely boring and confusing watch and you brand it as excellent. wtf?
who does blud think he is