Updates, Live: W.R. - Misterije organizma (1971)

W.R.: Misterije Organizma, made by Makavejev in 1971. W.R. stands for Wilhelm Reich, the controversial psychoanalyst who tried to put together Marx and Freud, whose books were burned in Germany in the 30's, and in US in the 50s, the guy who fled from from Nazi Germany to become later a victim of McCarthyism.

The movie of Makavejev is a documentary intercut with a feature. A documentary on Wilhelm Reich, using archive footage and interviews (edited in a way that leads to parody), and a story about a young woman in Yugoslavia of the sixties, an ardent adept of Reich and of the accomplishment of Communist revolution through sexual freedom. She falls for a Soviet ice skater, who cannot leave the Communist dogma and prefers abstinence, so he beheads her. As crazy as all these sound, add to this mix other independent sequences with sex, gays, masturbation, Stalinist propaganda footage, followed by scenes with electroshock applied on political prisoners in Soviet Union. The score is in counter-tempo with the images, suggesting new senses for everything, suggesting also associations with other famous film works.

It is not a movie for the weak ones, definitely not for non-adults. If you have the guts to watch it, it is cathartic.