Word: zed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FAST DOES a woman decompose?" is the first line in A Zed and Two Noughts, and the next two hours of this repulsive film are spent exploring every metaphoric, artistic and physiological aspect of that question...
...movie is a series of stupid riddles like this, passed off as remarkable insights into the soul of man. Zed indeed takes place at a zoo, where two brothers work as animal behaviorists. Writer and director Peter Greenaway uses this setting as an excuse to pursue noxious surrealist puzzles, revolving around such contradistinctive concepts as black/white, death/life, healing/torture...
...wasn't so pretentious and disgusting, Zed could almost be a parody of dialectic, throwing up (not an idly chosen phrase) contrasts and parallels that intertwine to infinite degrees. Instead, it is a celebration of decay and death...
...this perverted movie would be to dignify it to a degree it doesn't deserve. It's hard to imagine anyone enjoying this journey through decay, or to understand how the experience of watching an intellectualized version of Faces of Death could lead to anything but nausea. A Zed and Two Noughts is an angry, pointless film nothing more than stupidity masquerading as profundity...
...ZED Associates...