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"Lesli W. Cohen V&PA 793-7177" <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 1 Apr 1993 14:49:00 EST
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I don't know if anyone has mentioned this one yet, but I remember a few years
back a very strange film set in NYC about arty-type punks getting high and
doing the club scene in a vapid, shallow kind o' way.  Aliens land on a
building across the way from that of one of the night-scene punks, a young
beautiful, aloof woman with relationshiip problems.  With some special
ray-like beam, the aliens vaporize every person with whom she has sex in
order to tap into their endorphin rush.  Ironically, the girl is never killed
because she can't connect with anyone, and thus can't achieve climax.  So she
attributes their deaths to their having sex with HER, and quotes at one point
"Fuck me and you die."  Name of the film is "Liquid Sky" and as I recall, it
was made by a Soviet-emigre filmmaker.  For me, it really evoked the nihilistic
punk attitude that was so prevalent in the early eighties, and which is also
present in Penelope Spheeris' "Decline of Western Civilization."
 
good luck in your continuing quest,
 
Lesli Cohen
Department of Visual & Performing Arts
Clark University
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