Letterboxd — Your life in film

Got too close to the subject on the last one

Cousins cornball approach to categorization makes this really fun. It varies from dumb-as-rocks in it's metaphors to actually insightful in it's ways of thinking about cinema.

It's preocupation with communication and the space between what each character expects from each other reminded me a lot of early Mike Leigh in its own aimlessly wanderous way.

There's a point in the movie where it transforms into an episode of Kitchen Nightmares and it's fantastic.

Who would've thought Donald Duck is a malthusian?

Kinda funny how Michael Lavine who starred on Swanberg's The Zone, took the main idea from that film and riffed on it. That's not precisely a bad thing but there's not much added here. Also the running time and to-the-point editing of The Zone worked much better than the attempt of lyrical depth that Michael Lavine went with.

throw some pete rock beats and this is the best hip hop song of all time

Kinda funny how this whole movie is literally the extended version of this scene of The Newsroom www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGsLhyNJBh8&ab_channel=Jos

the original celebrity deathmatch

i know Straub and Huillet approved those subtitles but my god, it makes the viewing experience SO frustrating

imagen al servicio de la palabra
palabra al servicio de la imagen
ambos libres

while it suffers from some pretty manipulative imagery and a heavy-handed soundtrack its still an amazing exploration of systematic corruption