Rappaport's film is a series of vignettes that show our "casual relations" in various senses of the word. Most insightfully and most directly, the most memorable scene in the film, in which a male and female ex awkwardly talk as they drive to a hotel to "reacquaint," with the Stones' "Under My Thumb" playing all the while, shows how casually we consider our relations to others and how casually we consider the relationship between pop culture and everyday life. There are some other great scenes: a man tries to pick up another man at a disaster film documentary screening; a woman poses for a nude photographer as the photographer castigates his wife and child; a woman makes a stag film, and we are uncomfortably shown a great deal of the film; a woman shoots a man, and the scene is replayed several times, with different narration (from the woman or the man) each time; a man begs God to help him through a bad drug trip; a woman watches countless old films on her T.V. There's an awful film-within-a-film about vampires too. The film is very different from the documentaries that Rappaport is known for. It's worth tracking down.
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Yikes!
rarevideovault5 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Well, it's a very challenging idea to try and come up with a decent review of this "film". It's not really a film as such as a collection of short boring black and white cheap film student ideas that are not only dated, but also equally slow, boring and pointless and unconnected. Apparently took a over a year to make this film......a year they should have spent doing anything else......
There's a saying that if you're watching someone walk endlessly down a long hallway you're watching a bad horror movie. Multiple that by infinity add in poor acting, pointless narration and lack of a plot and you get this mess. Static one camera shots that go on endlessly until you can't stand it and then even longer seem to be the cinematographer's bread and butter.
Spoiler alert: One of the scenes is a static 2 minute shot of a car radio playing a song......that's it.....and after all that time, which seems longer than the last 2 minutes of a NBA 4th quarter in a close game, the driver blurts out to turn off the radio cause he can't drive with all that distraction.......except he just did for a full 2 minutes before saying anything......ugh...
There is a painfully long nude scene....which starts as a "photo shoot" and degrades into a solo "stag film"........and yup you guessed....boring as hell and of course completely pointless....
My son used to make more interesting videos when he was in junior high and him and his buddies ran around our back yard with sticks yelling at each other.
If you could go into a time machine and get some of the really hard drugs that they were doing shooting this waste of film it might help you to get through it......then again it might make you shut it off and go stare at a tree which would be a much better use of your time.....
There's a saying that if you're watching someone walk endlessly down a long hallway you're watching a bad horror movie. Multiple that by infinity add in poor acting, pointless narration and lack of a plot and you get this mess. Static one camera shots that go on endlessly until you can't stand it and then even longer seem to be the cinematographer's bread and butter.
Spoiler alert: One of the scenes is a static 2 minute shot of a car radio playing a song......that's it.....and after all that time, which seems longer than the last 2 minutes of a NBA 4th quarter in a close game, the driver blurts out to turn off the radio cause he can't drive with all that distraction.......except he just did for a full 2 minutes before saying anything......ugh...
There is a painfully long nude scene....which starts as a "photo shoot" and degrades into a solo "stag film"........and yup you guessed....boring as hell and of course completely pointless....
My son used to make more interesting videos when he was in junior high and him and his buddies ran around our back yard with sticks yelling at each other.
If you could go into a time machine and get some of the really hard drugs that they were doing shooting this waste of film it might help you to get through it......then again it might make you shut it off and go stare at a tree which would be a much better use of your time.....
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