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as a meditation on our culture's obsession with violence Murder is surprisingly beautiful. Murder brings people together. In
previous ages murder was an accepted public spectacle and drew big crowds. Our
contemporary world has been forced to find other ways to indulge our
fascination with death, and Murder displays
several alternatives in a dream-like narrative. The subconscious realm is represented
by puppets with a form and elegance so convincing you forget they're not real. Reality
itself however is presented as a blend of dreams, sex, death, subconscious and
fantasy - all with overlapping boundaries. Nick Cave's songs provide a suitably
ominous soundtrack, and visual media offer clues about location, and the state
of mind of the production's only human character. There are macabre moments but
they are softened by a trance like atmosphere that teases the subconscious -
humans aren't like this on a conscious level are they? Are we? Am I?
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