{"id":35157,"date":"2025-05-19T09:38:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=35157"},"modified":"2025-05-19T21:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T01:27:58","slug":"vulcanizadora-2025-film-review-artice-by-greggwmorris-theword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/vulcanizadora-2025-film-review-artice-by-greggwmorris-theword\/","title":{"rendered":"VULCANIZADORA:<\/strong><\/span> An Enigmatic, Esoteric Film by an Award Winning Director Whose Movie Has a Posse of Film Aficionados Singing Its Praises While Scratching Their Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Succinctly Synoptic:<\/strong> \u2013 Two friends \u2013 walking wounded lost souls to be honest \u2013 are trekking through some Michigan woods on a mission. The goal of their mission becomes clearer to the audience slowly (very slowly, painfully slowly) in the course of the movie. The two do accomplish what they sat out to do; only one \u2013 uh oh \u2013 returns home to face friends, neighbors, family members, acquaintances and the consequences there of \u2013 and of the law as well, their actions equivalent to the kind of happenings that inspire headline stories appearing in grisly tabloid publications like the old The National Enquirer \u2013 and, of course, YouTube.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Members of the posse write that the film was funny and comedic and deserving of applause but this reviewer decided after several look-sees to write his review that VULCANIZADORA had as much comedy as one would find in news broadcasts like that of the Trump-Vance-Zelenssky February 28, 2025 press conference in the White House where, for all the world to see, those of an antediluvian, neanderthal mindset excoriated Zelenssky for trying to ignite World War III without fistfuls of flesh-melting, thermonuclear weapons at the ready.<\/p>\n

It didn’t take too long that I felt the visceral twinge of an epiphany like a lightning bolt, only not fatal: This reviewer was unfamiliar with the oeuvre of award-winning Director Joel Potrykus as other reviewers were yet was ready to write \u2013 wrongly \u2013 about the lack of comedy \u2013 and there were other negative reflections but thank the gods they never made to this page. Not only was I unaware of the director’s work, I was unaware of his style, manner, approach to making movies.<\/p>\n

The first bolt of lightning enlightment:<\/strong> The film aficionados were well familiar \u2013 almost to the point of being cultish about Potrykus’ work \u2013 and that key characters were reincarnations of characters from earlier films by Potrykus \u2013 as well as themes and tropes and the like.<\/p>\n

The second bolt:<\/strong> A bleak-ish, dark, sardonic, morbid, apocalyptic humor coursing through the movie dulled for this writer-reviewer by the 84 minutes, 49 seconds of running time.<\/p>\n

This reviewer-writer came to realize that if VULCANIZADORA was 20-30 minutes shorter, he could rate it 5 stars.<\/p>\n

On to the Review<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Films imbued with symbolism and metaphors can enrich audiences’ cinematic experience with additional depth, nuance, and emotional resonances to a storytelling. They can allow filmmakers to convey complex ideas and themes in a visually compelling and thought-provoking manner. A designated absurdist existential film can be, in the right hands, a cinematic exploration of the inherent meaninglessness and absurdity of existence exploring themes of freedom, choice, and the human condition in a meaningless universe.<\/p>\n

Such films may feature surreal narratives, eccentric and bizarre characters as well as a focus on the unpredictability and randomness of life, mirroring an absurdist perspective that life lacks inherent purpose or order.<\/p>\n