Guy Maddin’s dizzily delirious 1992 film, Careful, has been called a pro-repression fable, a masterpiece of deadpan comic timing, a period piece evoking a time and place that never existed, and a Ricola ad gone horribly, horribly wrong.1 Utterly unique and yet evocative of myriad influences, Careful is a truly bizarre concoction created from the plundered relics of cinematic history and the dark attics of dreams.

Enslaved by suffocating taboo and the constant threat of avalanche, the citizens of the mountain village of Tolzbad lead hushed, wary lives. So zealous is their chariness that even the vocal chords of the animals are surgically snipped to avert potential calamity. A dog barks furiously, and yet all one can hear is the unsettling clacking of teeth. Honking geese are shot out of the sky with silently firing rifles. Rambunctious children are gagged and bound to chairs to thwart the dire consequences of their reverberating outbursts. Fragile glassware trembles and tinkles upon shuddering cupboard shelves, as though perpetually teetering on the brink of some terrible catastrophe.
 

Excerpt from Richard Malloy's non-graphic DVDBeaver review located HERE