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It's hilarious

and totally insane. I think the neuroplasticity of my brain may have extended past its legal limit.

I mean I actually made it to the end and was like

Yes. We have left the reservation. But the joke is we were never on it to begin with. Not for one second when this movie started were we on any holy nor protected land. Nothing stable. We just kept promising ourselves their would be stability up ahead...but god you think we would've realized sooner that if we just base the present on patterns of the past- we'd get it. Any and all rules- out the window.

It's just impressive how....

how much it does not give one care about one thing. And what I mean by this is. You set up a certain precedent and then break it. Then reset it, Then break it. Again and Again. Precedent= made of crystal glass.... The movie= solid titanium baseball bat at full tilt.

Then you get to the end.... and you finally realize " GOD HE IS ONLY SETTING PRECEDENTS TO BREAK THEM- EVERYBODY OUTTA THE HOUSE ITS GONNA---" it's too late. The bomb goes off. Everyone's dead.

What's so funny. To me. Hysterical actually....

Is for 2 thirds of the film... the movie does this absurd cinema Verite variety sketch comedy- esque meets a non political lenny bruce on 5 sheets of acid Troma and Terry Gilliam fish eyed ECUS (or even Jeunet style) menage troi of visual and narrative....

and it's funny in its youthful abandon. I mean really. Can't take my eyes off the screen. More engaging than anything on a streaming network and I'm not being hyperbolic....

but the real joke....

is the end

where it's none of what I just mentioned. It's not...youthful in its style.... at all. And I'm thinking "this movie... " but it's already too late because I can't follow the "this movie.." with anything yet because I don't know what's exactly happening I just know I've been had.... Until "farce" appears at the end and cut to black and I'm like "You're gonna do this to us.... you're gonna deny us and make the joke so much our expectations!"

and I caught it as soon as you transitioned... the first time ever we see these very formalistic compositions- the pacific northwest establishing shots.... and I'm like "wha... what's this movie doing?"...all on a drone or sticks

And of course they denote the future- because of their moves: drone shots. And they're steeped in science (as she is.)

But everything changes. It isn't a fluke. All the shots and compositions are on sticks. They are all formalist visually. And the performances change. They become very minimalist. Restrained. Not the same genre or acting style....and everyone is in top notch aging make up- great physicality and vocal work. VFX is on point.

It is so different than the first 2/3rds of the film- flying in the face of being wild without abandon...but is yet the most wild because of such a breaking of precedent.

And to me that's the funniest joke. What this movie says about aging. What it says about kids- how her own child abandons her but gets the person who convinced her to have a child (which split them apart because she didn't want to have one then split them apart again because she did.... and then brought them back together for him to take care of her because the child couldn't be bothered.... aging- having children-- and what the film is saying--- is all a farce)

And then the idea about ending up alone (which is brought up about the grandfather's story and it happens to her). And how he has to baby her in the end.

And what's so funny is how you refuse the audience - both visually and stylistically what they'd want and come to expect after 2/3rds of this whole cinematic "Don't drink the punch at Jerry Garcia's bar mitzvah" ...you hit them with a genre bender....in a way... where the film ages in front of our eyes... from being young and insane and jovial to being old and sort of biting and very mature in its final gotcha. In the real joke at hand. And the whole time at the end parodying a style shift, a humor shift....having that slow push in when she tries to tap the futuristic projector - a camera move indicative of that formalism. Lens flares... everywhere - all over the place. Every light fixture- as if you shot anamorphic but the whole time it keeps us in this non anamorphic aspect ratio... and I'm like this guy is having a real poke at us. I hope everyone is smart enough to get how funny this all is. At every level. And how brilliant.

And it is quite brilliant. Very unexpected. A real joy to watch.

It is rare to come across a comedy which deals with external jokes and punchlines as well as internal. External meaning that its jokes are diegetic to the story and the actual universe/reality of the characters; Internal meaning that the film, as a macrocosm ,is a joke a punch line in and of itself. Tim Lightell excels at this discipline to a degree that he will restrain himself from giving away the punchline even a second to early on the off chance that you may not stick around to really experience it. How he keeps you is with the External joke itself that is 2/3rds of the film- A man and his mad scientist girlfriend and well...everything "baby". The style of the vast majority of the film is both what you may expect and not- it is by all accounts meant to be absolute slapstick cinema verite, leaning as hard as it can into being absurd to the point you may think you are having an aneurysm while viewing....and it hilarious. But if you stay until the final third--- ah. The most brilliant joke is on you the viewer. He lulls you into this sense of utter young humor for 2/3rds and sets up expectations. That well--- he breaks... and suddenly, in a seemingly very intentional way- the film ages before ones eyes in the last 3rd- visually, narratively and humor wise- to high comedy. I mean the actual aesthetic style of the whole entire film changes- camera composition (formalism vs the earlier cinema verite), narrative style (a near silent section of the film, far less dialogue), genre, and production value...and these are wholly intentional.... and thats the actual real joke of the film. The internal joke. A Joke within a joke.

I am not being hyperbolic when I say, Ive never seen a film quite like it and I believe the director himself will go a long, long way.

Not what you'd expect but this one is something to watch if you like weird.

Heard about on Weird366 movies podcast.

An abnormal story that will not be for the average viewer but for those willing to take a chance on it and not against low budget indie productions, they're in for a good surprise. Kudos to the cast for great performances for being in a unique production.

The plot is bonkers, a man pretends to be a baby so his wife will want to get pregnant. And becomes infinitely more bonkers, when she uses a scientific serum to keep him a baby.

All of the craziness ends after the climax, but then there's still the last leg of the film. It takes a strange tonal shift and they also go to future. They do a great job not letting the budget show too much!!

Only way to know is to watch!