After an interesting attempt at the film The Brothers Grimm, Terry Gilliam is back up to his old ways with his latest project Tideland. Therefore, the first trailer for the film is enough to make you feel like it was you who were shot up with heroine.
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The official website for Tideland features the movie trailer for the Terry Gilliam film plus three official clips. Though the trailer is one heck of a mind-f*ck, the clips are a touch bit more mellow. However, mellow in the terms of Terry Gilliam isn't exactly the mellow most would think of.
Described by Terry Gilliam as 'Alice in Wonderland' meets 'Psycho', Tideland is a story that explores the resilience of a child and how she survives in bizarre circumstances.
Jeliza-Rose is a young child in a very unusual situation - both parents are junkies. When her mother dies, she embarks on a strange journey with her father, Noah, a rock'n roll musician well past his time.
The film drifts between reality and fantasy as Jeliza-Rose escapes the vast loneliness of her new home into the fantasy world that exists in her imagination. In this world fireflies have names, bog-men awaken at dusk, and squirrels talk.
The heads of four dolls, long since separated from their bodies, keep her company: Mustique, Baby Blonde, Glitter Gal and Sateen Lips, until she meets Dickens, a mentally damaged young man with the mind of a ten-year-old. Dressed in a wet suit and speedo, he spends his days hiding out in junk heaped wig-wam turned submarine, waiting to catch the monster shark that inhabits the railway tracks. Then there's his older sister Dell, a tall ghost-like figure dressed in black who hides behind a beekeeper's mesh hood.
As optimistic as it is surreal, as humorous as it is suspenseful – Tideland is a celebration of the power of a child's imagination.
To watch the trailer and clips for Tideland, head over to the official site.
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