The Caveman's Valentine
by Kasi Lemmons
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Actor: Ann Magnuson, Aunjanue Ellis, Colm Feore, Damir Andrei, Samuel L. JacksonDirector: Kasi Lemmons
Brand: Universal Studios
Producer: Andrew Stevens
Producer: Danny DeVito
Producer: Don Carmody
Producer: Eli Selden
Producer: Elie Samaha
Producer: James A. Holt
Writer: George Dawes Green
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Caveman's Valentine
Movie Review: The Enhanced Vision of so-called "Crazy" People
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Caveman's Valentine" like other movies of this genre ("The Fisher King" and "Powder") speaks to humanity's collective unconscious more powerfully than any of us can ever know, or even admit to if we did know. We are all so focused on this one lifetime, this one living space we call the world, our reality. But I believe there are those who remember other lifetimes lived in other dimensions and worlds in the universe; places, even earths, far older than this one. All too often, those memories, necessarily, return, shocking and so overwhelming the systems of those who do remember, that their exhumed, authentic sanity is catapulted into overdrive and the result is a brilliantly strange, supremely talented individual who can no longer co-exist with the delusional condition we call "civilization" because its very nature and the bylaws of that nature are a collective, unequivocal denial of what the Caveman (or Cavewoman) lives with everyday. This is because, by comparison, the tenets of the "regulated" insanity of our so-called "civilization" won't allow him to believe what he feels, dreams, or sees in myriad visions.
Society's cavemen and cavewomen are enormously frightening because they tap into our own "blocked" memories, and to try to believe them, even a little bit, is too much. So, we immediately label them "insane" because we hope that to do so will keep us from ever having to face what I think is a reality common to all of us, a place of secrets, and perhaps a shame that is older than time. For, why else would we, since the beginning of known time, torture ourselves with so much betrayal, violence, and suffering?
So, the Caveman's "insanity" grows not from some chemical secretion or refusal to deal with reality, but from the overwhelming power of the denial of an extraordinary, but true reality, which, to our shuttered minds is the stuff of lore and forbidden fantasy; a real-life fantasy which is impossible to prove to a world where the history of our souls and their creation has become the warp and woof of religion and legend, finding no real outlet except in the babblings of the "insane" or the "possessed." You may ask: What is the entire unabridged story? Well, for now, we've hidden that in the depths of our unconscious, where it lies "forgotten," until someone like the Caveman pokes a teasing finger and scares us into almost remembering. The story shall, I fear, remain "forgotten," until we can somehow resolve the often horrible contradictions of our pasts, and forgive ourselves both collectively and individually. Then perhaps, insanity will simply cease to exist. We will go home to the Caveman, the prodigals, whose acceptance of him, and his of us, finally brings the wholeness we have sought, and have shedded more than blood to find.
"The Caveman's Valentine" is not for everybody. But for those of us who believe in far more than we can actually see, this movie is a validation of that part of us, of those shadowy dreams and nightmares we wake from, frightened, not of their strangeness, but of their familiarity; not of their impossibility, but of their undeniable validity.
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