Mike Goes To Movies

Clean, Shaven (1993) Clean, Shaven is not an easy film and it is likely not for everyone. It is a deeply unsettling story that tells of the life of a man suffering from schizophrenia. The film is also remarkable in that it strays far from the mold of a normal movie-going experience by presenting its story through the subjective lens of its troubled subject. Whereas a usual film follows a generally nonpartisan viewpoint - the audience possessing information not in full receipt of all of the characters - here, the audience sees the world through the mind - eyes and ears - of a man suffering from a serious mental illness. The implementation of this is in a sensory overlord such as the man, Peter Winter, played by Peter Greene, must contend with in his everyday life. Audio is spiked, distorted and overlapped, with sources both real and imagined constantly being thrown at Peter and at the audience. The visuals similarly cannot not be fully trusted as Peter suffers ongoing hallucinati...