Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we are left, like Alice, with the Red King's conundrum: are we dreaming them or are they dreaming us?
27 Aug The Warped Forest (2011)
Nipple Dreams
This is quirky, erotic from an unusual direction, and quite sad until the end. I see some few summaries on the web, very few, and they get it all wrong. The narrative is not quite non-linear, but needs some untangling.
The black and white scenes are in the real world, and the very much longer colour sections in a dream world, triggered by a combination of magical forest (affected by an alien ship), and requests to that ship to tinker with the dream mechanics.
That part is non-linear, as the requests in our time come after the tinkering.
We follow three groups of three: three young men, three older men, and three young sisters. Pretty sisters. Goofy boys and men.
The dream world follows these three/three separately and in interaction as they try to overcome profound loneliness and different obsessions and loops of sex. That sex is portrayed in a novel way that makes it worth watching.
We have addictive fruit that has one or two very suggestive nipples, and also a pulsing vulva. These are harvested from nude young girls, part nymph, part tree, ‘watered’ from the mouths of the harvester. Nearly every scene has one or two characters addicted to sucking on a nipple or licking the vulva.
We separately have an obsession with human nipples and navels. Currency is nut-like objects that emerge from time to time from character’s belly buttons. One of the older men visits a brothel run by one of the sisters which has a small beast that sucks his nipples.
Another of the sisters has an affliction. Oh, I should say that all the problems come from their requests to tinker with the dreamworld. Her affliction is that she has dozens of round vulvas all over her body. This is remedied by the third sister acquiring a gun that shoots ejaculate on a discovered colourful superwomb in the forest. She excises the alien fluffy embryo, puts it on her head as a cap and it soon births a male creature that inserts a penis- tenticle in one of the afflicted sister’s holes, and pulls out a foot-long worm.
I said it was quirky. Everyone plays their bit seriously, as if it were a Jarmusch film.
Then, at the end, the alien ship grants their wishes. Or it decides their penance in tellytubby sex purgatory is enough, and we see (in black and white) at the end, everyone returned to normal life with apparently many lover/family connections.
Puzzling, strange, and innocent.
None of this by the way is erotic as normally understood, except one scene where the afflicted sister harvests these nipple-fruits, about pear sized. We see her collect water from a stream, then later approach the glade with our tree-nymphs. These are nude young teen girls, a Japanese ideal. They have skin coloured branches coming from their bodies including their breasts. She drips water from her mouth to one of these nymphs, while the others call seductively. The sister then collects a fruit from the nymph’s groin. This 90 seconds are so are richly erotic.
Posted in 2025
Ted’s Evaluation — 3 of 3: Worth watching.
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