Anne Carlisle's fearless performance amazed me, as did its general air of cruelty and decadence. The suicidal, omnivorous hunger for transformation at every level, the New York-ness of it all...
"And they call me beautiful, and I kill with my cunt. Isn't it fashionable?"
I loved it. I had been hearing about it for years in a sort of secondhand cult fashion; I think it must have kicked into mainstream movie news with the recent Blu-Ray release, so I knew as soon as the Brattle announced a screening that I wanted to see it, but I didn't know that much about it—I'd heard genderbending and trippiness and the early '80's fashion/music scene. No one told me about the heroin aliens. I knew I'd have loved it years ago if I'd found it then. I think it would have done much the same to my brain as Tanith Lee's Paradys, of which Liquid Sky really feels like the New York counterpart.
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"And they call me beautiful, and I kill with my cunt. Isn't it fashionable?"
I loved it. I had been hearing about it for years in a sort of secondhand cult fashion; I think it must have kicked into mainstream movie news with the recent Blu-Ray release, so I knew as soon as the Brattle announced a screening that I wanted to see it, but I didn't know that much about it—I'd heard genderbending and trippiness and the early '80's fashion/music scene. No one told me about the heroin aliens. I knew I'd have loved it years ago if I'd found it then. I think it would have done much the same to my brain as Tanith Lee's Paradys, of which Liquid Sky really feels like the New York counterpart.