③🍄【"Jan Švankmajer" - Mario Adventure】〖Squiggy's ROM Hack Romp〗(Super Mario World ROM Hack)
Ever heard of someone called Jan Švankmajer? If you asked me a few days ago, I'd say no myself, but I'm not that guy anymore.
It all started when I was watching a weird YouTube channel my friend told me about called Quenton Smirhes. He's basically a surrealist/dadaist/whatever you'd call it, who makes these short strange videos about weird nothings. Definitely worth a watch if you've got some time.
I was watching a video called "Quentin and the Fisher Price Clock", which I can only recommend if you're able to watch a grown man gargling as an instrument, which was pretty close to the line for me. I'm down for weird, but there's something about gargling that just skeeves me out a bit. That's probably a personal thing though.
Anyways, in his comment section, someone compared the video to Dark Side of the Moon, ostensibly because of their song 'Time". Another commentor called it something along the lines of a "bland but apt" comparison, leaving the likes of other Dadaists sad for hearing it. I believe they meant it as "This is similar to Pink Floyd in that they both use clocks as a centerpiece for a song, but it's nowhere near Pink Floyd in essence and is much more like these other Dadaist artists."
One of the mentioned artists was Jan Švankmajer, so I decided "Hey, I'm having a boring day, I've been locked inside for a year and watched almost every single video that YouTube has to offer, let's go learn about a new person." What a great decision friends. The video that came up was called "Dimensions of Dialogue", and it was really something else. It's got a lot of weird in it, but mixed up with skill and a compelling message. It doesn't really say anything directly, but it touches on some universal human themes in a weird, weird way. All this while engaging in some of the best stop-motion animation I've ever seen, and that's no exaggeration. This really is a masterpiece of stop-animation even if you completely remove the actual message.
It comes in three segments. The first is "Eternal Dialogue", featuring many different "specialized" heads communicating, one engorging the other, and finally spitting it back out to become a formation of them both. This happens more and more until the people all have a similar form. This to me is a comment on how our conversations change us as a person, and bring us closer to a combination of the person we are and the person we are speaking to. Your words form people into new people, and their words form you into a new person. I'm not sure if this is a commentary on bringing us closer to a well-rounded person, or to having our originality ironed out of us by conformity, but like most good art it is interpretive and invokes something interesting regardless of which way you choose to see it.
I'm about to give my thoughts on what happens, but I suggest watching it first if it sounds interesting to you. Better to experience the original than just my interpretation of it.
• Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajer)
This first segment is my favourite, but I will briefly go over the other two. The second, "Passionate Discourse", concerns two lovers and a dialogue between them. This leads to intercourse, which leads to a clay child. This child comes between them and causes them to violently fight each other, ripping each other's faces apart. This seems to me like a comment on how a relationship can be ruined by a child, although it's probably much more broad than that. This is probably a good time to mention I don't claim to be some artistic genius that can interpret some secret deeper meaning from something like this, all I can do is tell you how it made me feel. There's probably much more depth to this interpretation than I'm able to provide, but that's why I recommend you watch it yourself -- everyone's interpretation will be a little different, because it's a result of how this piece of art reflects the world around you and your personal experiences in it.
The final piece is much funnier than the other ones, which was a surprise. It concerns two heads having a call-and-response conversation represented by objects coming out of their mouth. The first head may protrude a toothbrush, and the other will protrude toothpaste to adorn it. A shoe comes from one, the laces from another. To me these are two people having a conversation where one is in need of something, information or an answer or even just a feeling, and the other is doing what they can to provide it. As time goes on, the responder stops providing what the asker is requesting. A toothbrush comes out, but it's sharpened in a pencil sharpener. A shoe comes out and is buttered like toast. To me this may represent someone that is not listening, or that doesn't care what you have to say, or that is focused on themselves rather than you, or even that is actively trying to manipulate someone or make them feel worse.
I have to wrap this up now, I've used every character that I'm allowed.
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