tonight film course film be the legend of the suram fortress and during it 87 minute run time it manage to quickly jump into my top five most difficult film of all time . that difficult to watch while film so different to everything else that youre see something totally alien . a brief synopsis would be represent a group of georgian be try to build a fortress to defend themselves from invader and but every time they be about to put on the finishing touch and for no readily apparent reason it collapse . so they go and see a fortune teller who advise them that if they want to get the fortress to stay stand and they need to find a youth and a tall blonde blue eye boy to be bury into one of the wall during the construction and his presence will ensure that the construction job will be complete smoothly . and sure enough in those closing moment there he be gladly be smear in cement and egg and giggle a he bury alive and with only his mother to grieve . it actually a fairly simple story . but the director and sergo paradjanov and working in soviet georgia in 1984 and not too long after leave a fifteen year jail term and doesn not follow any of the film making rule we be use to . there be very few close ups . very often the action we need to be follow be hide in the bottom leave hand corner of a landscape shot and extra ordinarily easy to miss . there be very few close ups and at time it hard to tell whose do what to whom and why . every now and then the film go off on digression which have no relevance to the main plot and generally serve to confuse the viewer . the music be utterly mad and with found sound and on screen instrument and church organ drop in seemingly at random . at time when nothing seem to be happen and someone will break into a jig and almost playing time until the next scene come along . but infuriatingly there be an obvious cinematic voice behind it all so youre compel to try and understand the message whatever it be . one of those time when your eye be glue to the screen simply because you can not believe what youre see .