This movie pays tribute to a worldwide tradition, or should we say - a cult, of media punishment. The adepts of this tradition find something demonic in rectangular objects, which provide access to another world, the world that seems to be here, and yet is nothing but the beams of light. The sacred ritual of media punishment is a tradition, rooted very deep in history. It starts with the punishment of the sea administered by the antique Mediterranean monarchs. These punishments were a result of a god's mutiny of course. In this sense, the meme persisted in various cultures. Europeans would take the relics off the altar to make a patron saint better carry out their patronage. Chinese Taoists somewhere in the misty rural heart of the Celestial Empire would drag statues of little gods, doormen of the bureaucratized heavens, into the yard and beat them with bamboo sticks for a poor harvest. This idea pops up as well in a Soviet performance, selected for one popular compendium, sold in Moscow, for example. Now as for the demonic screens. I would say, the idea of punishing some spirits, some dwellers of the holy realm, translates so easily onto the destruction brought to the innocent blue screen by the men of culture. This idea fits because it is well supported by other cultural associations. Consider for instance Malevich and his black square. There are a couple of coolstories related to it, in one of them the black square is supposed to replace an icon, in the second one - the sun. There is something extraordinary about the squares (right angles, vampire sci-fi writers correct me). There are no straight angles in nature. It is a signature of humanity. That's why despite all the impressive feats of contemporary designers, our furniture and household items. It is a great invention after all, flat surfaces with layers. It allows stacking things, hoarding, storing, homing, and keeping everything compact. No wonder the main ingredient of these practices, the right angle, is a symbol of humanity. A symbol of humanity that is based on illusion in its turn binds well with European apocalyptic thinking. Antimessia is planted into the TVset by the concerned parents, out of touch with their kids. Technology is generally spooky, as one can read in Future Shock. But in the case of transition from pre-TV society to a TV society, this effect is reenforced by this network of associations. And for this reason the existance of a fire-lit cave where the ritual is held, human ratio is destroyed, does not surprise me. What surprises me, is how this intricate world is made, what filter is that? Maybe I am too detached from the sacred grove. I think too much about the details in this movie. I feel actual, viceral relief, when I see a plant inside the toilet, because otherwise I would be forced to classify this movie as arthouse horror. Thank you for leaving me in the dreamland. I also very much support the idea that if you read books, you shit with flowers. Ideas are life, aren't they? Ideas are shit too, everything is bullshit when you reach nirvana. That's what we are talking about all along.