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Fuckland (2000)
Budget film-making with a funny premise
Fuckland is a funny movie with incredibly low production values and an interesting idea. It is promoted as a documentary about an Argentine man who wants to impregnate an English woman in order that Argentines can take over the Falklands by stealth. Most of the movie is shot in hidden camera mode and there is shots of the main actor walking around the Falklands supposedly finding an English woman to knock up.
The confusing thing about this movie is that although the shots of the normal people on the island are realistic, it doesn't make sense that the filmmaker could film himself having sex with a woman using a sabotaged condom and then sell the doco to networks. Of course when one check IMDb we can see that the women he "has sex" with is an actor as well, and the documentary is not really a documentary, but a movie masquerading as a doco.
The question that I have afterwards however is what was real and what wasn't. Did all the people the main actor spoke to know that he was filming? Did the guy really hate the English who live on the Falklands? How much of the dialogue was scripted?
Overall it was an interesting movie, but it brought up a number of questions that will probably never be answered.