#Jeliza-Rose

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Review #2 - Tideland (2005)

ID: Movie poster. A dead tree grows out of the ground. The image is upside down, with the movie title spelled upright with the tree roots underground. A young girl is sitting rightside up on one of the tree branches. End ID.

Genre: Horror/Fantasy

Content Warnings: Child abuse and neglect, drug use, needles, isolation, csa and related trauma symptoms, sexual abuse perpetuated by an intellectually disabled person, overdose, parent death, loss of a child's comfort item, toy destruction, unreality.

Spoilers Ahead!

Summary: In a grim and abstract retelling of Alice in Wonderland, young girl Jeliza-Rose is isolated in a decrepit house in the middle of nowhere after both her parents die of drug overdose. Her only connections are her off-rocker neighbors and decapitated doll heads which act as Jeliza-Rose's imaginary friends.

Where are the imaginary friends in this? Jeliza has decapitated doll heads that she uses like finger puppets to accompany her throughout the movie. They're voiced by Jeliza, but their autonomy and sentience varies; they definitely have their own personalities, but the way they behave is entirely informed by Jeliza-Rose's reality, so they're clearly in the "manifestation of her subconscious" genre of imaginary friends. Their participation in the story also varies; they're mostly background characters except for a few key scenes.

The Imaginary World: So, it took me over an hour to realize this movie was a retelling of Alice in Wonderland. The movie itself blends fantasy with reality with a few trippy sequences, but the overall theme and purpose of the movie is to depict a young girl surviving in a world where everything is as backwards and disturbing to the general audience as possible.

These incidents do exist in reality! Children are neglected, they have parents who are addicts, their parents can die of overdose, they can be abandoned and fend for themselves, etc. But these experiences aren't universal. The point is that Jeliza-Rose is isolated and grew up in circumstances that a lot of people couldn't imagine growing up in. Her perception of reality is warped because of this, hence making the real world into Lewis Carroll's Wonderland.

The dynamic of pretend play during trauma: Jeliza's world is bleak, which means her pretend play is bleak as well. Her IFs are as mean and disturbing as the rest of the world, but I think that makes this movie a good example of what it looks like when a child in distress makes their own companionship. Not all imaginary friend movies are about losing whimsy or growing up. In this film, the IFs replicate the darkness and meanness in the world around their creator. Don't get me wrong, I love Crenshaw. I love IF (2024). But I think exploring the other side of the coin where "an abused child is NOT comforted by her entirely kind, soft, unproblematic IF" is a good submission to the imaginary friend movie genre.

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Quando a mãe morre de overdose, a pequena Jeliza-Rose se muda para a fazenda dos avós. A vida rural não oferece muitas diversões à menina reclusa, então ela procura consolo no seu próprio mundo de fantasia. A única coisa com quem ela fala é com sua cabeça de boneca.

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Tideland

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nell’ultimo periodo abbiamo parlato veramente di tante pellicole molto interessanti, partendo da Gremlins e arrivando a Tigers are not afraid. In particolar modo mi sono divertito tantissimo nel parlare di Tigers are not afraid, una pellicola bellissima, capace di unire vari generi, unire i problemi di una società insieme al sovrannaturale e all’horror. Una…

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( they’re never gonna be like us barnaby joseph )

( we’re different barney )

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good evening friends, I’m going to be doing a double feature tonight for this one so I can FINALLY stop being behind. Without further ado, here is the first of the double feature. 

Day 20: Tideland

more about this movie under the cut

Tideland is an absolutely insane, surreal horror film that came out in 2005. I watched in the middle of the night, like I do a lot of horror movies. At the start I was kind of tired, but then I was so surprised and confused about what was happening in the movie that I woke up completely. 

This one’s got some gross stuff going on in it, but the worst of it has to do with the death of the main character’s father (who up until this morning I could have sworn was played by Billy Ray Cyrus, but actually it’s the Dude) and what happens to his body after. 

Spoiler alert but I think it’s important you know... there’s human taxidermy in this movie. 

But yeah the movie follows the story of a little girl with a wild imagination trying to deal with the tragedy her life has become. 

Synopsis from Google: Little Jeliza-Rose has a very warped childhood. Her parents are both drug addicts, and one of her daily chores is to prepare their syringes. After her mother dies of an overdose, her father, Noah, takes her away to his childhood home, but his own mother has passed away and the house is decaying. Then Noah overdoses, and while his body rots in his chair, Jeliza-Rose meets a taxidermist and her unstable brother.

You can find Tideland on Amazon Prime if you want to watch it. It’s definitely a trip.

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Tideland will be released on Blu-ray on August 14 via Arrow Video. Directed by Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys, Brazil), the 2005 film blends fantasy, science fiction, and horror elements.

Gilliam co-wrote the script with his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas collaborator Tony Grisoni, based on the novel of the same name by Mitch Cullin. Jodelle Ferland, Brendan Fletcher, Janet McTeer, Jennifer Tilly, and Jeff Bridges star.

The release features a reversible cover with two choices of original artwork. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by writer-director Terry Gilliam and co-writer Tony Grisoni

Introduction by director Terry Gilliam

Getting Gilliam - 45-minute documentary on the making of Tideland by Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice)

The Making of Tideland featurette

Filming Green Screen featurette with commentary by Terry Gilliam

Interviews with Terry Gilliam, producer Jeremy Thomas, and actors Jeff Bridges, Jodelle Ferland, and Jennifer Tilly

Deleted scenes with commentary by Terry Gilliam

B-roll footage

Image gallery

Theatrical trailer

Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Neil Mitchell (first pressing only)

To escape her unhappy life in a remote part of Texas, nine-year-old Jeliza-Rose dreams up an elaborate fantasy world. But the reality of having junkie parents – played by Jeff Bridges and Jennifer Tilly – and the influence of her eccentric neighbors begins to encroach, turning her daydreams ever darker.

A rich slice of Southern Gothic blurring whimsical fantasy with unsettling reality, Tideland is among Gilliam’s most personal works – indeed, with its shifts between the amusing and the macabre, expressive camerawork and striking special effects, the film could be the very definition of Gilliamesque!

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What to see: recommended by artist Kristina Rodina

Every week, we ask different people to tell us about the movies and TV shows they've watched lately. This time we talked to the artist Kristina Rodina. https://medium.com/@com548510/what-to-see-recommended-by-artist-kristina-rodina-37442dc1a3fa

As an artist, I am excited about the image of “unreality” and the embodiment of fantasy within the cinema space. The fantasies of a child, a teenager, and an adult are different things that come into contact with reality in different ways. And here are five films where the main artistic image is the fantasy of the protagonist inside a terrible external situation.

"Bridge to Terabithia" (directed by Gabor Csupo , art by Robert Gillis ) is probably the most heartbreaking story I've ever seen. If you need to cry for any reason, this is the movie.

It's interesting how it shows a teenage fantasy: it's not a detailed wizarding world, but rather a mental map that marks the most important areas. Therefore, the goal of the film - not to show some kind of looking glass, but to plunge us into the experiences of the main characters - is achieved very accurately. It is also important that Terabithia, in fact, belongs to the girl, and the boy plays along with her. So when she disappears, he can no longer get there.

"Land of the Tides" (directed by Terry Gilliam , art by Jasna Stefanovich ) is such a plot on the theme of Alice in the land of heroin. Jeliza-Rose, the main character of the film, in fact, the whole film is toiling and messing around in a way that only children can do. I don’t know how much I can advise him to an audience under 16, but the same childhood experiences are at the center of the story. And again, loneliness makes the child fantasize, leave the terrible reality.

Within the artistic solution, we can see allusions to Wyeth's paintings, such as Christina's World. By the way, the artist is very beloved by filmmakers. If in the film "Bridge to Terabithia" the image of the refuge is a whole magical land, then in the film "Land of the Tides" the refuge is just a train.

"Pan's Labyrinth" (director Guillermo del Toro , artist Eugenio Caballero ) is one of my favorite films, which I have reviewed many, many times.

The plot in it is quite reminiscent of The Chronicles of Narnia: wartime, an orphaned child. However, if all that happens in The Chronicles of Narnia is the conversations of children in the closet, then here the plot is more complicated. Personal experiences are added to general historical experiences, not tied to military operations around. The plot about the partisan movement within the region is intertwined with the partisan movement of a girl inside her fictional country.

It is very interesting that the fabulous objects that the girl invents are not of a romantic nature. They, like the outside world, are scary, sometimes ugly. If in The Chronicles of Narnia the Faun is a cute "librarian", then here it is a militant creature, made, I want to note, without the help of computer graphics, with one make-up.

Special Guy: Dumb Superhero (Directed by Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore , Artwork by Nathan Amondson ). In the center of the plot is an adult (but not matured) guy. And again a story about an escape from loneliness, this time social. The desire to be significant and important is expressed in hallucinations of the protagonist about acquired superpowers. But the character of the hero through this game is so revealed for himself that, in fact, the need for fantasies disappears. And then fantasies begin to torment him, not wanting to dissolve.

"Good Time" (directed by Benny and Josh Safdie , art by Sam Lisenko ) is a film worth showing to those who need to explain the word "love". Or who wants to look at Robert Pattinson.

Pattinson's character is an antisocial type, wrapping the situation around him into a funnel from which he himself cannot get out. But all that drives him is love for his brother. It's the only thing he keeps in his head. And, probably, you can’t say that, but all the crimes that he commits completely pale in front of the huge feeling that he carries.

A lot of attention inside the picture is distracted by the light. Unnatural, outrageous, too saturated - like the fantasy of Pattinson's hero.

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Angle, Perspective, & Scale

Part 4/? (Read parts 1, 2, 3)

Certainly another one of Mr. Gilliam's signature flourishes is the way he teases us with our perception of the world he creates, how his characters relate in those worlds and at times the tone of commentary he is making on our 21st C lives. Like most of his work the angles, perspectives, camera movement, special effects and the growth and movement of things are often fantastical, unnatural and unsettling. They are intimately intertwined with the other components discussed to create a “Gilliam Gestalt”. Like so much of his work Angle, Perspective, & Scale can range from literal to metaphorical, blend between them or toggle back and forth.

This Gestalt is one of Place & Purpose. One of the most memorable, captivating and purposeful is the harrowing scene at the end of Brazil where Sam Lowry has been strapped to an operating chair in the middle of a futuristic elevated scaffolding and poised at the termination of a metal jetty.

In the foreground, Jack Lint (Michael Palin) attired in blue scrubs and an oversized, "clownish" Babyface mask stares toward the camera before he turns to a harrowing approach. Sam is in the distance, by perspective small, helpless and trapped while Jack towers and looms in the foreground. It is a waking nightmare and a metaphor for a man caught in the web of a faceless Orwellian bureaucracy about to undo him.

Another way he flips perspective can be seen in Imaginarium where, early in the film, some of Doctor Parnassus' crew stop their activities to view a miraculous "floating water walker". In short order they and us realize that we see this image from a different perspective and realize that the so called walker is in fact hanging (from a noose) under the bridge they are standing on, hanging by his neck struggling to free himself illuminated by the moon onto the river, before certain death. But true to Gilliam form, this water-walker / hanging man is a bit of slight of hand. Once Parnassus' troupe rescues this man we discover the character Tony has foiled death by partially swallowing a pipe that prevents his asphyxiation and neck to snap (which we learn later he has developed a habit of needing to do). And so we experience this kind of shifting of perspective and reality.

A much more subtle, but at the same time literal, example of perspective can be found in Tideland. Tideland is a story told in a very specific way from the perspective of a little girl. We see as much as possible both from her perspective and through her eyes. 

One needs to think for some time whether any of Mr. Gilliam's film has been more controversial, misunderstood and met with less box office success than Tideland. Perhaps his least accessible and understandable of his movies to a wide audience the numbers related to box office receipts bear this out. With a budget of $19 million and an opening weekend in the US (on just one screen) of $7,276 it may never breakeven financially. The story concerns a young pre-teen girl named Jeliza-Rose who becomes abandoned when both her irresponsible parents die (from choking and drug overdose) leaving her to her own wiles, imagination and the surroundings of an expansive Texas countryside. She keeps herself occupied with her finger puppets, neighbors and various peculiarities of the landscape.

What is striking about Tideland is that on more than one occasion (including as an intro to the movie) Mr. Gilliam makes it very clear, using simple direct English that the movie's intent is to be innocent and from the perspective of a little girl. He emphasizes the elasticity and "bouncyiness" of kids and how they see and experience the world. He literally TELLS us the perspective to have. The sense of perspective here is recast as "your perception" in his invitation for you to forget your adult world (as he states in the confession/intro to the movie “forget everything you've learned as an adult") and which his final imploring words to the audience are a thrice utterance of "thank you, thank you, thank you.”

Alice in Wonderland meets Psycho. Child's survival. Disturbing. Touching. Funny. These are all words that Mr. Gilliam has used to describe Tideland. In many regards the adjectives Mr. Gilliam uses to describe Tideland are the same ones that can be used to describe any of his films.

The variance is simply the degrees and emphasis he uses on each element in different films. In this way his style breathes life into his films, informs the action and writing and sets the tone. His films occupy the dual properties of distinctness and commonality.

Stay tuned for Part 5 about Horror & Reality.

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Watching Tideland makes me want to pick up Jeliza-Rose as a muse...

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* CELESTAR * - L1: 18-17 (on Wattpad) http://my.w.tt/UiNb/MDL7I6IJzA * * Lorsque le sujet F/34 revient à elle, elle n'a plus aucun souvenir de son ancienne vie. Emprisonnée entre quatre mur, elle ne sait pas ce qu'elle fait là. Son seul indice est un nombre énigmatique: 90. La jeune fille va très vite se rendre compte que cette pièce est peut-être son tombeau. Mais peu à peu, des souvenirs ressurgissent dans son esprit, apportant des réponses à ses questions et donnant un sens à ce qu'il se trame autour d'elle. Plongez dans une aventure pleine de rebondissements, une aventure extraordinaire aux confins de . . . (haha je n'en dirai pas plus.) * * ** Bonne découverte de mon univers et Bonne lecture ! ** ** Merci infiniment à tous ceux qui partagent ce monde avec moi ! Sans vous, Bellara et Eiden ne seraient rien ** ** Meilleur Classement dans la catégorie Science-Fiction #2 le Jeudi 5 Janvier 2017 ** ( Aussi disponible en version AUDIO sur Youtube dans le livre CELESTAR 100% AUDIO ou sur la chaîne Youtube: Jeliza-Rose ) © Tout droit réservés. " Article L-122-4 Toute représentation ou reproduction intégrale ou partielle faite sans le consentement de l'auteur ou de ses ayant droit ou ayant cause est illicite. Il en est de même pour la traduction, l'adaptation ou la transformation, l'arrangement ou la reproduction par un art ou un procédé quelconque. "

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* CELESTAR * - L: 18 (on Wattpad) http://my.w.tt/UiNb/ftUrUyz5sA * * Lorsque le sujet F/34 revient à elle, elle n'a plus aucun souvenir de son ancienne vie. Emprisonnée entre quatre mur, elle ne sait pas ce qu'elle fait là. Son seul indice est un nombre énigmatique: 90. La jeune fille va très vite se rendre compte que cette pièce est peut-être son tombeau. Mais peu à peu, des souvenirs ressurgissent dans son esprit, apportant des réponses à ses questions et donnant un sens à ce qu'il se trame autour d'elle. Plongez dans une aventure pleine de rebondissements, une aventure extraordinaire aux confins de . . . (haha je n'en dirai pas plus.) * * ** Bonne découverte de mon univers et Bonne lecture ! ** ** Merci infiniment à tous ceux qui partagent ce monde avec moi ! Sans vous, Bellara et Eiden ne seraient rien ** ** Meilleur Classement dans la catégorie Science-Fiction #2 le Jeudi 5 Janvier 2017 ** ( Aussi disponible en version AUDIO sur Youtube dans le livre CELESTAR 100% AUDIO ou sur la chaîne Youtube: Jeliza-Rose ) © Tout droit réservés. " Article L-122-4 Toute représentation ou reproduction intégrale ou partielle faite sans le consentement de l'auteur ou de ses ayant droit ou ayant cause est illicite. Il en est de même pour la traduction, l'adaptation ou la transformation, l'arrangement ou la reproduction par un art ou un procédé quelconque. "