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A Kubrickian Style Black Comedy and Wicked Satire
by rik f (movies profile)
Mar 24, 2008
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6 people found this review helpful
This movie is an old style black comedy and broadside attack on Contemporary American culture.
While Donnie Darko was set slightly into the past, this movie is set slightly into the future.
If you are puzzled as to why some critics say they cannot understand or follow the story or plot, the reason for this is (as in Donnie Darko), the story and the plot are not only moving backwards in time, through the movie, but the main character is also stumbling around carrying the screenplay of this movie in his hands, and trying to figure out where it came from and where it's going himself, throughout the film.
The movie is a broadside, vicious, wicked, cyberpunk style attack on American pop culture, politics, capitalism, and the internet.
Every character is an entertaining caricature of
themselves, and the only person who seems to be
the hero of the film, who the audience might identify with and empathise with, sadly has absolutely no idea who he is, and does not figure it out until the last two minutes of the film.
If you are a Donnie Darko fan, remember, "The Philosophy of Time Travel" book and consider this film to be a sequal, where the director explores his vision of America being dragged into an unexpected timehole, and through the "failing light at the end of the day."
This type of Kurickian, visionary satire is little understood by people today. This is in itself an indication that the shallow, brainwashed, propagandized population of this country is so
lost in the illusions of icon worship and capitalism, that they can't follow the concept of the satirical assault, since the target of the satire is the audience themselves and the popular culture they thrive on, since the invention of the internet.
The internet has ruined the world.
See "Southland Tales", a movie that has gone over a lot of heads. |
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