For his first film of the '90s, Derek Jarman went back to The Garden, literally and figuratively, to produce an abstract meditation on religion and how homosexuality relates to it (or doesn't, as the case may be). As such, there isn't much to it in terms of story, just a procession of bizarre set-pieces and tableaux, many of them centered around a gay couple (Johnny Mills and Kevin Collins) that is subjected to all sorts of indignities of the flesh, which they endure together. Tilda Swinton also pops by, initially seen picking mushrooms, then posing as the Madonna with child, who's hounded mercilessly by balaclava-clad paparazzi. And the later scene where she plucks a chicken is intercut with one of Mills and Collins bound and gagged and being tarred (or more likely molassesed) and feathered.
A film that never wants for outrageous imagery, The Garden also includes such sights as the Serpent in Eden being represented by a leather man wielding a black dildo, a musical number (for the song "Think Pink") performed in front of footage taken at a Gay Pride Parade, the ever-present phalanx of naked guys running around with flares, a trio of guys in Santa suits serenading a sleeping Mills and Collins with "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," a disturbing scene set in a bathhouse with Jack Birkett as Pontius Pilate and Michael Gough as an onlooker, and an abbreviated spin through the stations of the cross. But merely putting them into words doesn't quite do them justice. You really have to see them to appreciate them.
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