The Oregonian

Plot synopsis:
An unnamed Oregonian (Lindsay Pulsipher), the protagonist, leaves behind an abusive past as she delves into her unknown future. She wakes up bloody behind the steering wheel of a crashed Station Wagon. There are two dead people in front of the car. Did she run them over?Dazed and confused, she begins her journey to find a phone to contact society to find help, not only with her current position, but with her life as a whole. Her first encounter is an elderly, decrepit woman. The Oregonian then has a series of flash forwards in which depicts her future in the film. The elderly decrepit woman pays no attention to The Oregonian so The Oregonian continues and happens across a creek.She cleans her wounds to the best of her capability and continues to not only find a car, but also a shotgun, which she uses to defend herself throughout the film. In the car, she is introduced to a large green frog character. She leaves scared and confused and continues to an abandoned town and is confronted by a mysterious man in a trashed van. The man gets out of the van and urinates for an exceptionally long time and his urine is flowing in colors of the rainbow.This portrays the uniqueness of the man and of the film up to this point. The Oregonian and the mysterious man end up in a motel. The man drinks gasoline furthering the confusing nature of the film. She has flashbacks of the crash, the old woman and the green frog. She leaves the motel and meets numerous people in a green room. The characters act senile and The Oregonian cannot handle the scene. It seems that The Oregonian cannot figure out the events that seem to be happening. Is this all a dream? Or is this reality?As the film comes to an uncompromising end, The Oregonian comes to a realization that the characters fit her past. She feels content with the characters and her journey through the maze of her unknown future. She ends up becoming one of them, and she fades away into her death, the path that was bound to happen.

Tags: psychedelic, violence

Review:
Young Lindsay Pulsipher on her farm in rural Oregon is hearing and seeing many strange things so she leaves the place, rifle in hand and face bloodied to see what's going on.
On the way she encounters a lot of weird people and the question is whether this is real or hallucination.I think the person who wrote and created this film must have been on something, possibly coming down from a bad acid trip.
It tries for the lost in woods feel of Blair Witch, but substitutes screams and flashed images for genuine scares.Story wise, it seems like they were trying to do an Alice In Wonderland finds herself in hell.
You need to know what you're walking into see when you buy your ticket for The Oregonian: a tactful, minimal, indulgent terror experimental film.
The film is saturated with harsh, glaring and alarming flash cuts and bizarre scenes which offer it a streak of unpredictability, keeping the viewer constantly alarmed and constantly plagued with a very unpleasant vibe.
These cuts and 'montages' which pretty much assault your senses are carefully placed and timed, heightening the disconcerting tone which the movie rides on.
The second time I watched the movie, I muted it to see how a lack of noise would affect the viewing, and I was impressed to see how much the score lent itself to the construction of the scenes.
Overall, I was pleased with The Oregonian so much so (as an experimental film) that I've watched it numerous times with numerous people and had a different experience each time.
If you like dark, terrifying experimental work which relies heavily on imagery and sound, you will love The Oregonian..
This film really wants to be a cult-classic midnight movie kind of deal - the sort of idiosyncratic horror film that could be screened alongside D.
Whereas the best midnight movies seem to spring from uniquely personal visions, this one feels like some people spent a weekend throwing around half-baked ideas, hoping that something would stick.
And, while the best cult films feel original and strange, this film feels more-or-less like a generic bit of horror, just without a discernible script.
Going into this movie looking for a plot is like waking up in the morning and looking for the plot to your life.
Why do people demand so much more from film than they do from real life?
Where is this 10 Commandments of what film should be that people seem to be referring to when they say what should or shouldn't go into a movie?
Then there films like the Oregonian that shun the template and carve their own footing in cinema.
Those telling people not to watch this, or any film, is a disservice to all art forms.
If you want films to break free from the shackles of convention, you need to be okay with them playing out in unconventional ways.See this movie for yourself.
This terrifying, relentless Lynchian journey into Hell never lets up.The imagery is stark, shocking, strange and compelling, and the acting is spot on.Reeder is obviously creating something of an homage to David Lynch, using some of his scariest techniques in a frantic death-ride to oblivion.It's bleak, horrific and brilliant.Lindsay Pulsipher in particular is spot-on, and completely believable, as are the cast of mad characters capering in and out of her reality.Destined to be a cult classic, and deservedly so..
If you like story, logic, and acting in your films this is not for you.
Containing a slew of undeveloped, characters who add nothing to the film who drink gas, and yell not at anything just yell Cinematography that causes motion sickness.
This has a feel of a film done by a 19 year old film student who wants to share his vision with the world who finds out once his acid trip ends that vision doesn't make much senseWARNING if you get stuck watching this you may feel the need to finish it, thinking it has to come together at some point DON'T it never does and the attempt to make it do so only makes annoyance at an otherwise horrible film transcend into a feeling of rage at the time lostThe last spoken line is "you shouldn't have come here" I agree.
The scenes in the movie seem to carry you along and its strangeness fits with the experience the director is trying to take you on.
You are definitely going to have to be in the mood for this or it will probably rub you the wrong way(Or you will just turn it off after 10 minutes).My advice to potential viewers is to skim through it before watching it if you can.
Rarely can a film make you laugh out loud while your skin is crawling at the same time.Not everything in the film works, but what does is beyond effective and if you appreciate Jodorowsky, Bunuel, Lynch or Kiyoshi Kurosawa you'll dig the hell out of The Oregonian.Then again, you might be looking for something a little more worn out and painfully predictable.
You really have to wonder about the type of sadist that rushes to IMDb to write a bad review for a film like Oregonian.
I like it when films have an element that is left open to audiences interpretation.
The Oregonian would like to do things to you and with you.
Previous to watching I read all the interviews I could find with the director and from those I had built a sense of what to expect in terms of how he cared about this film.
I think that other creative people should adore this movie.
what i may have liked about it seemed to be reeder's attempt to depart from lynch and leave his own mark, to be imaginative and elliptical, departing f which is sadly only ten percent of the film.
you think you're getting something different when he's playing a hipster making fun of hipsters, but reveals himself as a wannabe director making a b-movie that somehow got way too much attention because everyone leaves it to lynch.
And of course how can we forget the lovely granny in the red a truly inspiring character in this movie and executed perfectly.
i hope one day I will sit down with my family in our living room and we will all enjoy watching The Oregonian..
The film has a mysterious monster, and twist that will leave at the edge of your seat.
The main girl in this exquisite movie breaks my number one rule, don't trust a girl that smokes Marlboro red cigarettes.
Personally I loved attempting to put one and one together to figure out what in Gods name is happening in this movie.
In my opinion this has got to be one of the most underrated movies of all time and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in being mind blown and down for a good time.
The lessons are undeniable in this movie, but the one I felt the most confident about was no matter where we are in life we will all have a green monster that tries to control us, but we cannot ever let the green monster dictate our path through the woods..
To be honest, when I watched this movie I never at any point had any clue what was going on or what the purpose could be.
I think this is the reason why this movie has gotten some negative reviews, because the critics don't appreciate true intellectual weirdness, aka genius.
I did not have my true appreciation for this movie until afterwards, lying awake at night wondering what the hell I just watched, and looking up explanations on my phone.
After reading various websites, I came to the conclusion that the true genius is that there is no right answer as to what happened in this movie.
You can guess and use logic all you want to but two people may never have the same interpretation of the content and story which makes it a different experience for everyone.
P.S. if you planned on calling your grandma any time soon I would do it before you watch this film.
If you're looking for 81 minutes of pure thrill, mystery and awesomeness then look no further, The Oregonian is the film for you.
This is hands down, no questions asked the best movie ever made and those who haven't seen it are missing out.
As the story progresses the viewer can never clearly see what direction the plot is going and just when you think you have it figured out, it changes completely, making it the best mystery of all time.
As she wanders through the new land she sees many bizarre things including the man driving the van and the green monster which make no sense at the time.
As the movie nears the end the message begins to become clear, the green monster shows that that one should never screw over the ones that care for you.
In conclusion, I spent my night watching The Oregonian and needless to say, it was the best night of my life simply because this film is so amazing.
to anybody who unwisely went to see it.This movie is supposed to be a horror (I think), but none of it was coherent or made sense in any way whatsoever.
The only way I can think to explain it all is to imagine that it was like a series of thoughts/images that might go through a person's mind at the instant of a traumatic death.At no point can I say with any confidence that what we were seeing was a bit of "reality" (the real world in the film that is) or if it was, beginning to end, in someone's mind, or if it was just all an excuse to try out different camera angles, lighting setups, scene ideas, or makeup techniques on film.I almost feel bad judging this movie.
The movie ends, but I couldn't tell you what happened or if any of the characters were real or imagined or what.So, my advice.
I like lots of bad movies, and I can appreciate the ones that are so bad they're good.
The best thing I can say about this movie is it's the first one I've actually had to turn the sound down to hear it instead of way past 11.It takes a lot to get removed from my Netflix queue, but the Oregonian made the cut.
I don't know what is like to go insane but I think this movie gives you about a close a look at it as you can get.
I mean nothing made sense in this movie and it was creepy as hell.
In the film The Oregonian, the woman (Lindsay Pulsipher) is on a direction-less journey that seems as if the Oregonian is just wondering in some sort of abyss or in the unknown of a purgatory sort of world.
After the Oregonians's car wreck, she encounters different people and each has an uneasy sense in their character.
He then proceeds to pour gas on it, all happening while the necrophilia man is having the time of his life.
When she comes back to life she brutally clubs the necrophilia man to death in the bed of a truck while he is wearing a frog mascot costume.
More events unveil in what seems to be an unorganized and random way to unravel, however this plot summary can be seen as the final destination of the Oregonian's journey in life, and the events that happen in her last moments of travel to said destination..
The Oregonian is a tragic telling of a woman who gets in a car wreck in the middle of nowhere and tries to find her way to help.
She comes across many individuals throughout her journey that bring her down different paths and show her a certain way of life.
What the movie represents is life itself and the different paths we can go down on that journey.
The green that often appears with the green monster thing and the green room she goes through shows the path of life that she had the option of going down.
With this being said, The Oregonian is a horrifying experience of one girl's path of life or death and the influence her infertility had on that choice..
The Oregonian is an action packed drama that will keep you guessing, literally guessing, what will happen next throughout the movie.
Many scenes will have you scratching your head and wondering what is going, and who would even think of something like this.
It may seem like there is no point, but every viewer has his or her own way of watching it and can make their own conclusions about it.
Then the rest of the movie trails off from there including a car wreck, crazy old lady, omelet making van driver, shirtless mustache man, a person with a gauze covered face, and a man wearing a green cookie monster/Gumby costume.
A series of events occur before it all leads to her death when she appears to be driving into a field of high radiation.I believe that this movie has many different plots and views that a person could take from it.
The two people she kills in the car crash at the beginning of the movie is when she begins to hallucinate and starts to see things.
We see all of the strange people in the movie drinking this drink and then doing odd things and start laughing.
She then starts laughing and playing with the dead people like they are dolls from the car accident form the beginning of the movie.
That is why I think the green creature symbolizes her and the monster she becomes when she is on the drug.
The independent film, The Oregonian, is one which is highly underrated and teaches the audience a valuable lesson in addiction.
We can only assume that our main character performed sexual acts in order to obtain more drugs from this man.At this point in the film, we can see that the director is attempting to communicate to us that this woman is clearly tripping balls.
As the movie ends, we see our main character drive away with her future, cracked-out self as her face slowly distorts, reflecting upon the inevitable years of future drug abuse..
It is in my opinion that the plot of the movie is that the main protagonist is in Hades, Hell but she does not realize it yet.
Later in the film she comes to a small town where she finds a man in a van wearing some aviators.
While in the desert with the strange people, she sees the man in the frog suit, and after a horrific hallucination, she murders him with a lead pipe, thus concreting her presence in Hell.
The ultimate thing sending her to hell was the killing of the two people she ran over and a man she had an affair with.With all this said the movie was amazing and did not get the recognization it deserved.
Greatest Film Of All Time.
The main character is a good looking blonde female who gets in a car accident.
Its film quality, dialogue, and story line are just a few of the qualities that cause me to put The Oregonian at #1 on my top ten movies list.
This movie has that, along with more twists and turns than a roller-coaster hand job.
In my eyes, the green monster and the Movie itself are our saviors.
I recommend that you watch this movie with your woman and a couple of gasoline margaritas.
No matter what movie you may be looking for, The Oregonian can satisfy your cinematic needs.
Through the many twists, turns, and bloody pissing scenes, The Oregonian keeps you on the edge of your seat, never being able to guess what will happen next.
Despite The Oregonian being labeled as a "movie" I know it is so much more.
In all, if you feel that you are ready (you aren't) to experience this beautiful work of art, then go right ahead and experience this life- altering movie first hand.
While single handily making you rethink who you really know and can trust in this world, the film will ruin any love for green fluffy monsters that you have.
This movie has changed my life for the better and simply watching this film has made me 2x the man I was before.
At the same time she also learns life lessons such as don't dress up like a green monster so that you don't get an omelet cooked and made in/on your back while getting railed from behind.
Through the twists and turns presented throughout the movie, The Oregonian makes sure everyone knows that it's unsafe and unwise to leave your farm.
The star studded cast drives this film's intensity, including a night-maringly scary "Green Monster" character that you are always on the lookout for.
With an extremely unpredictable plot and major character development, this film is a refreshing take on the horror genre.
"What does the omelet represent?" "Can I trust my own Grandma the next time I see her?" "How much gasoline can one man drink?" You may interpret the ending how you like, but there is no denying this is an amazing film that pushes the boundaries of what we know to be true in the horror industry.
Throughout the very confusing and almost non existent plot, there are few words ever exchanged by any of the characters and this leaves the audience to make their own depiction of what is truly going on in this movie.
I feel as though this is the common theme throughout the movie, it is simple and leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
But just like the main character, we have no idea what the future holds for us and it is the uncertainty that is most frightening to most people.