Synopsis
Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.
Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.
Sirenengesang, Zavođenje, The Lure - Córki dancingu, 魅惑, Vábení sirén, A Atração, Завођење, 인어와 함께 춤을, Deniz Kızlarının Şarkısı, ครีบกระหาย, Дъщерите на дансинга, ゆれる人魚, Дочери танца, 魅惑人魚姬, Fiicele dansului, Доньки дансингу, פיתיון, Sirenin zov, Ellenállhatatlan csábítás
the two mermaids: hissing and singing and chewing on human body parts
me with my camera out: you're doing amazing sweeties
a gorgeously shot Polish goth musical about homicidal teen mermaids hired to sing at a nightclub. obviously essential.
fun fact: i watched this on ambien and spent most of the following day thinking that it was a dream i had. only after someone mentioned that they were going to a press screening of "the mermaid movie" did it click for me like at the end of The Usual Suspects. (i watched it again)
mermaids: *eat men*
me: there is no way this could be more specifically tailored to my tastes if it tried
mermaids: *start to sing*
me: oh my god
Eh, no big deal, just your run-of-the-mill adults-only Polish mermaid sex musical.
feel like when someone says "80s stylized polish bisexual mermaid horror musical" you probably know how you're going to feel about it
Why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid, with the fish part on the top and the lady part on the bottom?
it's weird that so many people called this goth, it came off as bright disco/pop/eurotrash horror, do i not understand what goth is? is it different now? this is too pretty and turquoise to be goth? just because a mermaid eats people doesn't make the whole thing goth? right? anyway aside from a chunk in the middle that i did not care for at all i liked this a lot, the polish song lyrics are beautiful but translate to simplistic and not very poetic english and that weirdly kept me from feeling like this had some way complicated metaphors underneath the obvious ones that i was missing. there's...a lot going on but it's basically about how men are dumb and want to have sex with sexy fish but are too uptight to admit it to themselves so they take out their internal disgust on the sexy fish. just go for it bro!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Over a century and a half before Ariel lived Under the Sea and wished that she could be Part of Your World, Hans Christian Andersen told a much darker tale of a little mermaid who wanted to live among humanity. Like Ariel, she fell in love with a human man, but he married another woman, unintentionally forcing her to choose between murdering him to avenge her broken heart or dissolving into sea foam and ceasing to exist forever.
Agnieszka Smoczyńska's The Lure is more in the vein of Andersen's original fairy tale than the sanitized Disney version of it. It is a much more cynical vision of the world and a much more violent vision of mermaids than Disney brought…