i first heard of begotten when a girlfriend of mine pick it up in a cult classic section of my local video retailer . she know i like obscure artsy movie so i rent it and bring it home . it sit on my tv for a couple of day and then i put it in the vcr just before go to bed . i think that maybe i will see what it like first then devote more time to it the next day . what follow be that it actually wake me up . i sit through the entire film and love it . after i go through the closing credit i watch it again . only after you see the closing credit do you get an idea of who be who . after you know that you can watch it again with renew appreciation . don not listen to the people that tear this movie apart . it not for everyone . if youre someone that doesn not like read subtitle than this movie isn not for you ( not that there be subtitle and there no dialog at all ) . if youre someone that actually own rush hour 2 then this movie isn not for you . this movie be truly original and inspire . it do what other movie have never do . it look like nothing else and be bold than just about everything out there from 1989 to the current date . you can tell that everyone involve in the making of this movie truly love the art of what they do and understand what can be capture in cinema form . if youre look to be entertain then the movie isn not for you . however and it be pure escapism in some extreme way and in film form . it like someone attach wire to my head and tap one of my bad nightmare . but this nightmare make sense if you really sit and watch the image and dissect the action of the actor and and do not sit there noodling your guitar passively but watch and not blink . people compare it to eraserhead but beget be so much more . i be not joke when i say it be my favorite movie . it an important film and visually stimulating and mechanically inspiring and and hypnotic . one review i read about it be very true though and no one will get through begotten without be mark .