Sasquatch Sunset: In a children’s book of Yeti’s stories, four extremely thin tall creatures appear lumbering in a forest. They walk; they consume food; they construct, and they do it all over again. The gaggle makes use of and shares various unbecoming sounds including growls, screams and whoops yet we are not included in these discussions.
The movie is exposed, and we will figure it out without many words – through the movements, vocal inflections, and gestures. In “Sasquatch Sunset,” the audience goes on an exotic and surreal adventure of survival with four sasquatches, exploring the idea of humanity’s places within nature and nature itself as it is represented on film.
David and Nathan Zellner’s film feels like it’s set in another galaxy; in another time, a relami, perhaps even another world. This one is pretty much in our times. The picture some people may have of our times and how we embrace nature and all its awe, is not exactly revenant. But, for the sake of argument, what can any single individual or their very large families do?
Fortunately, we are blessed with the fact that there are no awful nature documentary naïve telling animations that voice over the sasquatches. All the lectures dealing with such creature features and appreciation will be given over to the furry actors – Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Christophe Zajac-Denek, Nathan Zellner. They all voice characters through heavy make-up and costumes switching themselves in none of the scenes.
Zellner’s creature is an elder outcast who appears to harbor some jealousy towards his younger happier companions. Zajac-Denek’s beast seems to be the little one, the active, inquisitive infant who sometimes gets too adventurous and gets room for more than her share of trouble.
Luckily for Keough’s matriarch, she is usually there to rescue him and takes care of the happiness of the group while waiting for the arrival of the new member of their family. Eisenberg’s patriarch is softer and kinder than the sasquatches created by Keough and Zellner, and his animation is overshadowed only by the energetic being of Zajac-Denek.
Enjoyable and pleasing as it may be, there are real dangers of the anthropotropomorphized bipedal monsters, and the barbarism of the forest exposes itself in the you know actions. Panthers, venoms and sheer death threat are no more hazard to them than they are to us. At last due to constant problem of wandering around sasquatch, they happen to learn the existence of people, and this jolt brings them into wrathful violence in the manner of apes.
One thing that one does not get to see so often in nature wildlife documentaries which the Zellners do for humor is that of having the animal mated in the act of erotic copulation, squatting and scratching her body and investigating it, nudging in displeasure, urination and fecal matter ejection.
One could argue the Zellners wasted the most sasquatch bodily fluids in one shot of a film. But that is probably not everybody’s ideal way of spending an afternoon in a theater.
There’s not a drop of dialogue in Sasquatch Sunset so that allows the viewer’s imagination to freely wander in the forest along with these large and hairy creatures, soak in the friendly light of the morning sun penetrating the trees, observe the clouds flowing between the mountains, watch the other animals living in the woods, listen to The Octopus Project, a band based in Austin that offered soothing synthetic sounds during this peculiar journey.
A feeling glass like Mike Gioulakis’s sun-filled cinematography could be advertising tourism promotion. This film however appears to be pleading for human presence to refrain from disturbing these pristine places.
As the scripwriter of the movie David Zellner, puts his sasquatch family through a lot without having to share screen space with humans, the feeling of intrusion is glaringly apparent. To many of us, such narration may appear as fantasy, trying to survive on foraged berries and fresh fish guts, but at its heart, the struggle to live, the struggle to find love, the struggle to protect one’s family is all too familiar.
Well, once you get past the weirdly fitting costumes and the fact that there is almost no coherent storyline throughout the runtime.
It is however one’s willingness to accept the sasquatch tribe that is a better testimony of suspension of disbelief. Some of the crazier aspects of the film were too much for me and I could take the movie while contemplating, but those who were not like me who would not care about the movie, I can imagine it would be. ‘It was just a second viewing that has made some insightful and creative observing of what the Zellners were able to put out there on screen.
Some may assert that this is irrelevant where I would want to be positioned by some of the notes which are more on the strange side for this particular film. Sasquatch sunset is a distance immense in scope, happiest visions or hallucinations attempting to sell over the bare and plaintive landscape through motions of four performers dressed in hideous costumes yet filling in for none on their work. Still, this way of regarding this bigfoot sighting does have a sense of wonder even if that is how this is a fantasy.
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