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Bizarre |
| Date: |
25/01/02 (56 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: interesting, visual, funny
Disadvantages: urghhhh!
From the cover this magazine could easily be mixed up with the usual 'lad mags'. Every month, scantily clad beauties sit more or less legs akimbo surrounded by the headline features that invariably include the words Sex and Drugs. I would have ignored Bizarre totally, lumping it into the 'Loaded and FHM' catagories if I hadn't been given a copy 4 years ago. I haven't missed an issue since.
It's hard to describe fully what Bizarre is about but you can never forget the graphic images or various articles ever again. This world is a mad, strange, evil, funny and amazing place and Bizarre do their best to introduce you to this place beyond the comfort of your four walls.
It opens with the Gallery, amazing photographs on a full or double page that stun you. Pictures that range from two-headed dolphins, tiny fire-engines, psychotic staring competitions (of the Borono tribe to attract a female - of course!), and the truly newsworthy - a US trooper obviously dead, trussed up naked and mutilated surrounded by cheering Somali's. Who dares to take these images? They are of huge importance, pictures that the rest of the world would rather forget.
Several pages follow on from the gallery, featuring funny and weird goings on in the world, just short snaps of information.
The main interviews could feature musicians, porn stars, artists, directors, writers usually anyone with a slightly strange view of the world. Most of them prove the theory that the drugs don't work!
The main articles are in depth reports that have definately opened my mind for the better. I knew about the Taliban, their extreme views and their persecution of women 2-3 years ago. How the brutal murder of a Japanese woman was serialised in top Japanese newspapers with alarming Manga (or anime - I get confused) style cartoons showing large a breasted woman being humiliated and tortured, bearing little or no relation to the news story. O
r a feature on the rat children in India - girls and boys with limited mental ability and strange pointed heads and ears, begging for money. It went on to describe how devices were placed on the young childrens heads that constantly presses on the pituitary gland causing these permanant effects. Who was doing this to the children and where did all the money go? Considering it is very bad luck not to give money to the rat children when seeing them , someone was making a lot of money out of this.
This article was very disturbing and eye-opening but only a few days later an almost identical version of the story appeared in the Daily Mail. From Bizarre to the Daily Mail - amazing.
This magazine can give you a an uneasy feeling of being a voyeur at a freak show, but it's fascinating, well written and the photographs are technically brilliant. There is an overtone of SEX SEX SEX but lets face it, we are British and we like to know what everyone is up to - who is to say who is doing it right? And Drugs have been featured heavily lately but as they say it's your choice.
If you are not easily shocked and want to learn what the hell is going on in the world then buy it. I love it and look forward to it every month, I only have to overcome the embarrassment of buying what from the outside looks like a porn mag.
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