Brand upon the Brain!

Brand upon the Brain 2006 is a silent film directed by Guy Maddin and shot in Seattle with local actors. Maddin directed the film from a script cowritten by Toles, shooting over nine days and editing over three months, on an estimated budget of 40,000.

Guy, twelve years old in his memory, attends a secret meeting of orphans run by Savage Tom, a believer in pagan rituals. Tom says he will cut out the heart of Guys friend Neddie but Guys mother interrupts through the use of her aerophone, a radioloudspeaker that Guys domineering mother uses to communicate across the entirety of the island and so keep control of her children, whom she also spies on with the help of a telescope mounted with the lighthouses revolving light. In the orphanagelighthouse, mother delights in repressing the orphans desires as fully as possible, especially the sexual yearnings of Sis. Mother relates that she herself was an orphan because Maddins grandmother was bald and scalped her sister for her hair, while her sister was so jealous of the pregnancy that Maddins mother was literally cut out of her own mothers stomach. Maddins father, littleseen, spends his time in a basement laboratory while Mother oversees all else.In the woods one day Guy meets a young girl, Wendy Hale, a famous teen detective investigating why orphans adopted from the island all have holes bored in the backs of their heads. Guy falls for Wendy and the two join Sis and Neddie for a game of spin the bottle. Wendy falls in love with Sis and impersonates her twin brother Chance in order to pursue her. Guy develops a Boy crush on the disguised WendyChance, who moves into the orphanage to further herhis investigation. Guy helps WendyChance investigate and they discover that Father is using a sharp signet ring to drill into the skulls and draw nectar from their brains of the orphans and his own children. The nectar is harvested and shipped to the mainland, and also used to extend Mothers youth. She becomes twenty years younger, and hopes to eventually return to infancy, but the effects are daily reversed by the ageifying efforts of keeping Sis and the other children in line and properly repressed. Sis being the biggest problem, Mother sends her for additional nectarharvesting,

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