
In a storybook wood, four tall gangly figures make their way through the trees. These beings walk, eat, make homes, and go around in circles repeating the same things over and over. The members of the group, as we witness their active articulatory features of grunts, screams, and whoops, do not include us in their conversations. It is, however, rather similar to a silent film; we grasp the meaning of their language through movements, pitch, and facial expressions. In “Sasquatch Sunset”, Richard Mulligan is the narrator of a poem, a story about survival that is documentary in nature as it revolves around four sasquatches it is a poem about nature and the relationship that we have with it while being a sasquatch experience. Richard Mulligan is even credited as saying such a thing about David and Nathan Zellner‘s work, that it originally appears as if it’s out of this world, this time, or even another dimension or planet. Although the background is rather easy to locate. It is today. The relationship that our civilization has with nature and the secrets that it holds is inconsistent and hardly tolerable. But really what is it that any one of us, or our families, are capable of doing?
There is a silver lining in that out of the entire movie there is no weak documentary style nature humor narration that seeks to humanize the sasquatches. That responsibility lies with the furry actors voicing Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Christophe Zajac-Denek, and Nathan Zellner. Every such actor plays and creates a recognizable character with a realistic look despite applause of prosthetics and costumes over expectations.
Zellner’s character looks older and like a polarizing character who apparently has ill feelings for his younger, livelier mates. Zajac-Denek’s creature has to be the youngest, a little child with huge innocent eyes and excessive curiosity who, from time to time, gets too close to the flame. He is still lucky as McKeough is more than usual there to take care of him and keeps stressing how the group is waiting for a new member. Rather, Eisenberg is a kinder and milder sasquatch than Keough and Zellner’s sasquatches, and the only one who is more playful than him is Zajac-Denek’s fiery creature.
As funny as it may sound, it is the sasquatch who makes the first move and jerks people to look for him in the woods, and very quickly the dark side of the forest comes out. However, panthers, poisons, and fatality are not different from them either. The terror of recreating human encounters is what eventually leads the sasquatches to stroll around for quite a bit. Angels don’t engage in such activities, and it is a sin even for an animal to attempt such things nevertheless, Zellners use zany humor which makes them roll around together and copulate, play with their privates, and bellow around to show how hostile they are.
The Zellners may have displayed the most sasquatch bodily fluids in any film, but this might not be everyone’s cup of tea when it comes to the movies.
As there is not a single speck of speech in “Sasquatch Sunset”, it makes it readily acceptable for our heads to wander throughout these wild ape-man creatures as the almost noysome dawn sunlight almost effortlessly sunbathes the forest while the fog obstinately wraps around the mountains, other animals in the woods, the music of the Austin band The Octopus Project which provides soothing synths in this strange adventure, the camera work of Mike Gioulakis, all of these elements are simply gorgeous. It’s almost as if this movie wants people to stay away from the environment as much as possible shouting at them to not touch it. David Zellner is the person who wrote the movie and tells the tale of an imaginative sasquatch family coping without any adult human actors, only satellite television would allow the intergalactic disturbance of Earth like we provide now. For many of us, it might seem like a pretty impossible thing never to hold a single edible item purchased from a store, but at its root, every human being can relate to the land grabbing, the desire to find friends, and the need to protect what they love from outside dangers.
Well, you can manage to get through the fuzzy costumes, and not a single word could be made out throughout the entire course of the film.
However, it takes a lot of suspended belief to actually believe the Sasquatch tribe, and some of the more humorous aspects of the film became too much for me to be able to remain in a state of contemplation about it. It was only after the second screening that I was able to fully understand the perspective of the Zellners regarding the film in question but for some maybe this would not be sufficient to overlook the more obscure details of the film. “Sasquatch Sunset” is a goal-directed film in its realist and abstract structure with the idea behind it being evoking emotions and purpose towards ‘natural beauty’ through the performance of four actors who appeared to be wearing some very far-from-normal costumes. But still, there is a reason for all this fuzz around the bigfoot encounter that may be appealing to someone who isn’t supposed to take it all that seriously.
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