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Genuinely, GENUINELY blown away after seeing Peter Curtis Pardini's Man Goes On Rant tonight at Austin Film Society. Starring Brian Villalobos in a tour-de-force performance I can't even begin to wrap my head around.

A legit work of art from top to bottom. Singular in it's vision. Grand in it's ambition. And beyond scope in its humanity. It is a pitch-perfect film in almost every single way, and as far as I'm concerned, it is the de facto movie about the pandemic even though it's so, so, SO much more than that.

This is going to sound like hyperbole, but I'm being 100% honest when I say watching this movie was what it must've been like to watch Easy Rider back in the 70s. It just so completely nails what it's like to live in this current era. The anxiety. The confusion. The isolation. And despite being such a raw nerve of a film, it's also filled with a deep well of empathy and heart.

Congratulations to Peter, Brian, Akasha Villalobos and everyone else involved in the making of this movie. It's a huge achievement and I cannot wait to see what happens with it. Because SOMETHING is going to happen with it. It's just too good to ignore.

An amazing work.

Man Goes on Rant might be the only new film, endeavoring to portray the impossibility of reason in the dissonance of contemporary culture. The performances are breathtakingly real and there's something so insightful going on here. This film, whether intentional or not, has flares of Chayefsky and like "Network" is very much a rant - as the title suggests. It's a rant for 2024, no less poignant and monolithic in its scope. It's a film that if the filmmaker never makes another is still a powerful piece of art for the ages. Let's hope that's not the case because there's a shortage of gutsy filmmakers out there who want to cater to the last adults left standing. And it's funny too.