I was all ready to hate this movie and it actually was pretty good. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone (because it's just tasteless and more a joke ON the audience than jokes FOR the audience) but I'm curious what others who have seen it thought.
I felt that as a gross out comedy it never really worked, but it succeeded as a surrealistic comedy, which is what Green probably intended to some extent. It's got a lot in common with Bunuel and weirder David Lynch movies in that it uses a sort of clumsy dream-like cause-and-effect with reoccuring surreal motifs (if you watch the deleted scenes you can really see this.)
I suppose gross out comedy, horror, and surrealism are three different approaches to the irrational and psychosexual. That's why surrealism often has disgusting or funny elements, and also why horror movies and gross out comedies sometimes venture into the surreal when they get out of hand.
The themes in the movie are pure surrealism and have been seen before in the works of Lynch, Bunuel, Dali, and others: animal sex, oedipal impulses, birth, sado-masochism, father-son power struggles, the monotony of the industrialized world, blood and guts, old age, the fabrications of society (this is a fancy restaurant!). The dream-like logic which propells the story is similar, too. The idea that Gord (physically perfect but nuts mentally) finds his soul mate in someone who is extremely smart and successful but crippled is pretty interesting, too. Unlike true surrealist films, the movie also subverts classical Hollywood narrative structure in a very self-aware manner, though. It doesn't reject Hollywood film making by being different, but instead by parodying it.
I thought the sausage/piano gag was pretty funny, as was the soap on a rope bit, but the horse getting erect was just too much (and totally random! This scene served NO PURPOSE, except perhaps to establish a motif.)
Anyhow, it was a surprisingly original film though definitely not recommended. Green seems to be an okay director, and the movie was decently shot and edited, too, but the concept behind the film is just too weird for anyone to really enjoy it.
I felt that as a gross out comedy it never really worked, but it succeeded as a surrealistic comedy, which is what Green probably intended to some extent. It's got a lot in common with Bunuel and weirder David Lynch movies in that it uses a sort of clumsy dream-like cause-and-effect with reoccuring surreal motifs (if you watch the deleted scenes you can really see this.)
I suppose gross out comedy, horror, and surrealism are three different approaches to the irrational and psychosexual. That's why surrealism often has disgusting or funny elements, and also why horror movies and gross out comedies sometimes venture into the surreal when they get out of hand.
The themes in the movie are pure surrealism and have been seen before in the works of Lynch, Bunuel, Dali, and others: animal sex, oedipal impulses, birth, sado-masochism, father-son power struggles, the monotony of the industrialized world, blood and guts, old age, the fabrications of society (this is a fancy restaurant!). The dream-like logic which propells the story is similar, too. The idea that Gord (physically perfect but nuts mentally) finds his soul mate in someone who is extremely smart and successful but crippled is pretty interesting, too. Unlike true surrealist films, the movie also subverts classical Hollywood narrative structure in a very self-aware manner, though. It doesn't reject Hollywood film making by being different, but instead by parodying it.
I thought the sausage/piano gag was pretty funny, as was the soap on a rope bit, but the horse getting erect was just too much (and totally random! This scene served NO PURPOSE, except perhaps to establish a motif.)
Anyhow, it was a surprisingly original film though definitely not recommended. Green seems to be an okay director, and the movie was decently shot and edited, too, but the concept behind the film is just too weird for anyone to really enjoy it.
you said: "even tho I love dumb movies, Dumb and Dumber anyone?". Either way I was just messing with you. Dumb and Dumber is my favorite comedy.
