Mad God

“If you disobey me and remain hostile to me, I will act against you in wrathful hostility.” The passage from Leviticus 26 that opens the film foreshadows the world of Mad God, a realm under divine wrath. The “Last Man” continually sends “Assassins” into the seemingly bottomless depths, where they encounter tiny dwarf-like creatures, tortured giants spewing waste, and monsters that casually dismember others. Mad God unsettles our assumptions about life and humanity. Its beings are born, labor, devour and are devoured, and die, without any noble will to survive or grand cause to justify their actions. Other lives simply take their place, making death part of an indifferent cycle rather than a tragic event. In such a world, the distinction between human and nonhuman also begins to falter. The human and nonhuman, living and mechanical, organic and inanimate become entangled until it is…