But Cookbook is never esoteric for the sake of being it. A scene like Sean panning a flame from one side of his face to the other as his own shadow haunts him will take the place of easy exposition, or dialogue, or a flashback that’d cost the film its mystique. The Alchemist Cookbook tells its story in visual beats and rhythm’s that almost all channel some element of Sean’s inner conflict with victimhood. But as Sean devolves further into a state of crisis, those operations recede, and the demon encroaches. Cortez provides food, medicine, and the alchemical gizmos required for Sean’s experiments. And Cortez, ours and Sean’s singular peephole into the outside world, becomes a less tolerable visitor in spite of the goods he delivers. He saws into battery terminals, salvages animal carcasses, and imbibes vial upon vial of chemical hell in an attempt to meet his destiny.īut, rather quickly, a demon, or Sean’s manic decay, begins to impede on his dream. And yet, for Sean, you still hope and believe in the path to riches and immortality. The alchemy features a poor man's chemistry, more boy beating worm guts and dirt into a sludge, than chemist turning lead into gold. Like all recluses, Sean trades the world he was given and can’t relate to for one he can create and control. This hypnotic parable befalls a hermit in the woods a boyish man named Sean (Ty Hickson) who chugs perilous poisons (processed food and drink and gnarly concoctions) until the venom strains through him. An 'out of body' hallucination triggered by a near-death experience - triggered by toxins. ![]() The ensuing spell subsists off of a sick, unsettling hypnosis. ![]() The Alchemist Cookbook feels something like the fix you'd get from siphoning arsenic fumes in a weather sealed garage.
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