TIDELAND
2005
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Written by Tony Grisoni and Mr. Gilliam, based on the novel by Mitch Cullin
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Tideland
Terry Gilliam. 2005
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Qu'Appelle River, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Watching Tideland when I was 16 as part of my complete chronological Terry Gilliam retrospective might be the most traumatizing cinema experience I've ever had.
I do want to talk about it, but I will tell you up top : I don't recommend you watch this film. I don't want to go into the events of the film in detail because that is not something I want on my blog and so this post does not qualify as a list of things you can expect in Tideland. If you really want to check it out, read a summary first. I'm being serious.
Now I've watched a ton of horror films. Between the ages of 14 to 19 I had access to a huge digital library of pirated horror films, a lot of the cheap cheesy 80's slashers, but others genuinely horrifying. I can be a little bit of a wuss BUT I don't get my stomach turned and my mind blown easily by horror.
Tideland fucked me up. To the point that, even though I absolutely, 100% recognize that it is a very well made film, probably one of Gilliam's films closest to his intent and vision, a beautiful work of art that aligns perfectly with his obsessions and themes, I genuinely cannot recommend it to anyone or watch it again.
There's no monster or alien or ghost or serial killer. There's no stalking murderer or torture devices or even that much active tension. But there are some of the most fucked up situations I've ever seen put to film. And the fucked up situations aren't even the problem really, I've seen a lot of intensely wrong scenes put to film. The problem is that those things are happening to a child. And that child is too young/too sheltered/too alienated inside her own mind to realize how fucked up they are.
The film is designed to make you want to protect the main character. It is designed to make you follow and understand her slow mental decay as her young mind tries and fails to process what happens around her. It is designed to make you feel helpless, because you cannot reach into the screen and pull her out. She's not getting attacked or beaten. She's not being pursued by some kind of beast. She's suffering from something that may seem outwardly outrageous but is, at its core, extremely real and extremely human.
Tideland is set in a sort of island where the sea is endless fields of wheat. The main character is taken there as a way to "protect" her, by isolating her from the real world. There, she finds figures that seem familiar and unknown at the same time. She is left alone. Found. Adopted. Her mind fractures. The train gets louder and louder at night. As though the rails were getting closer. It's called a shark. The tide is creeping closer, inevitably. It will sweep the fragile edifice she made of her own mind to try and keep it afloat.
Tideland is a beautiful film. I will never watch it again.
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Some Terry Gilliam films I still need to watch.
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Tideland - Movie Reviews
If you're a fan of unsettling, strange, and surreal films, then you should absolutely check out Tideland!
Tideland tells the tale of a young girl abandoned by her parents, who have died of drug overdoses, leaving her to a remote Texas farmhouse. However, she is unbothered, lost in a world where her dolls speak to her, there is nothing wrong with the people next door, and her father remains in her life - gently rotting in the living room chair.
I absolutely recommend it for a watch, if you want a film with outstanding scenery, and a journey into a strange land that doesn't quite feel like real life. However, be warned that there are some uncomfortable scenes, and trigger warnings should be researched.
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