Existence in the blink of a high
1984, Italy, Colour, 157 minutes
Directed by Serito Pantoni. Written by Mantino Motto
Starring Humberto Ilago, Sabina Frida, Nunzio Drahma, Takahito Azuma
The earth is merely the hallucinations of a wizard high on a drug called Mynd. Parts of the world begin to disappear when the wizard's parents send him to a detox centre. It's up to a rag-tag group of heroes (a big game hunter, a samurai, a Colombian drug lord, and a beat poet) to travel out of the wizard's mind to his world and try to keep him high. Sadly the genre of sorcery-related metaphysical adventure never caught on outside of the town halls of Sicily, the only place Pantoni's films have ever screened.
Watch out for – the scene where our heroes are shoved into a waiting room with other hallucinations of detoxing Mynd addicts.
Quote – “I thought we were special, but there's nothing special about drugs. Other than the ability to imagine entire worlds and civilisations.”
Reviewed by R.P. Thunderdunk
