Valhalla Island

Four Eyed Monsters is an independent feature film about Susan and Arin’s relationship. When I first heard about it from this girl, I was apprehensive (as always). I haven’t seen the film but I have seen all the video podcast episodes. They’re also all available on YouTube.

They’re brilliant, I can’t describe how good they are. It’s also very difficult to describe how they have made me feel, I know that they’re something I really needed to see. The way they capture the problems people encounter, the way the whole story covers so many problems. There’s always the theme of work vs. relationship but there’s other things always running from episode to episode, ownership, parents, not having enough money, selfishness and self sabotage, there’s more.

There’s something very organised about filing everything that happens into weekly 10 minute videos. The amazing thing is that it’s real, it’s all real but it plays out as if it’s not. It’s all cut together beautifully, they’re both very good at what they do. I don’t know, I feel like such an idiot writing a post so badly about and after I’ve just finished watching something so good.

The characters, if I can call them characters, I don’t think I can. The people in the videos, that they worked with on this movie are amazing people, all amazing in their own little way. I really like Joe and in episode eight he really takes a stand where one had to be made.

One episode shows them going to a screening in New York City where they meet people that have been following these videos and one girl in particular says that she feels like she knows them, like they’re a part of her life. I like these people a lot, I really like Arin, it’s strange that I can say I really like people I’ve only seen on a bunch of short videos.

What they’ve done is something so amazing, it amazes me that people live projects like this, working like crazy to make it work. It’s something you really wish you could have been a part of. I think they’ve gone about everything the right way, they way they have gone about the screenings and the way they sought out people to help.

I really cannot say anymore, this post isn’t doing it justice. I almost stopped watching after the first one, don’t, they progressively get much better. The latest episode, episode eight, was posted about 20 hours ago and is the best I don’t want to say it’s the best, I don’t feel comfortable calling something that’s really happening like it is, ‘the best’. It’s just, really good…