Sick at the smell of it?
Polyester is a film directed by John Waters using Odorama in 1981. Watching it (and scratching the card it came with, made me feel rather ill. Odorama is rather like the ghastly smelly things you plug into an electric socket in order to disguise smells. Only it is slightly worse. Apart from Sandra Sullivan's Mink Stole almost all of the characters are thoroughly vile, or if not vile at least they are the sort of people you would probably prefer not to spend much time with. The plot is filled with incident yet lacks drama because there is nothing to draw you into the film, no character to empathise with, nothing to get hold of. That said, the quality of the camera work (I don't think it should be called cinematography) was excellent and not surprisingly the camera company Arriflex got a credit at the end. But the real star of the film was Charles Roggero's editing which was truly impressive.
A good example of a film that proves why just relying on a gimmick is not enough.
