Lumenskir
05-06-2008, 02:37 PM
Man, what a fucked up movie.
If you haven't yet seen this 'film', I heartily recommend that you immediately gather up your friends, maybe get a little drunk, and dive into it totally clueless, which won't be hard considering the fact that any plot summaries or synopses you do manage to find will be laughingly incomprehensible...until you see the film in action and watch 140 minutes of "Wait, is this really happening?"
That being said, this is a thread for people who have emerged from the wreckage of Richard Kelly's latest offering with a resemblance of sanity intact. This is a thread for people who have trouble sleeping at night because they are positive that a movie with unexplained SWAT midgets running around can't exist. This is a communal support group for those who are haunted by lines like "He had a 200-inch cock" or "Pimps don't commit suicide". Maybe, just maybe, it can be a way to come to an agreed-upon explanation for how R. Kelly managed to get any amount of money at all to make a mostly plotless masturbatory ode to his disjointed and laughably paranoid leftist views.
My friends and I each have our competing theories as to why exactly this movie was made:
Friend 1: Kelly actually wants the movie to change some people's minds about...something(?). I think this has about a 34% chance of being the case, because I've read an interview where R. Kelly himself admits that the 'point' of the movie is obscure even to him, and the fact that if he really wanted to change people's minds he would have done about three less bong hits while planning out the narrative flow of the movie.
Friend 2: This a big test to see if people will actually come to the movie's defense while R. Kelly sits behind the scenes and laughs at anyone who tries to make sense of his big 'fuck you'. I'll give this one an 11% chance, because the theory was proposed by someone who hated Donny Darko and I'm merely ambivalent about DD. Of course, this movie does feature Kevin Smith in makeup that can only be described as 'horrifically obvious' and a Killers music video/Bud Light advertisement that pretty much defines "irrelevant unnecessity" so I feel the 11% might be a tad conservative.
Mine: The movie is a way to inflict people with PTSD so that the true plight of veterans is made clear for everyone. While some of the throwaway lines are sorta clever/humorous (the "The future will be far more futuristic" line in particular is something I'd expect to hear in Futurama) the vast majority are downright dissonance-inducing, meaning you leave the experience while your mind futilely tries to make sense of how someone can say something like "We sent monkeys through the time portal" with a straight face, or how a movie can exist that is built on such brain benders. Eventually you're forced to seek out the counsel of others who have been through the same traumatic experience or steadily devolve into madness.
But that's just the three theories I'm most familiar with. With something this stupidly expansive there's bound to be more.
If you haven't yet seen this 'film', I heartily recommend that you immediately gather up your friends, maybe get a little drunk, and dive into it totally clueless, which won't be hard considering the fact that any plot summaries or synopses you do manage to find will be laughingly incomprehensible...until you see the film in action and watch 140 minutes of "Wait, is this really happening?"
That being said, this is a thread for people who have emerged from the wreckage of Richard Kelly's latest offering with a resemblance of sanity intact. This is a thread for people who have trouble sleeping at night because they are positive that a movie with unexplained SWAT midgets running around can't exist. This is a communal support group for those who are haunted by lines like "He had a 200-inch cock" or "Pimps don't commit suicide". Maybe, just maybe, it can be a way to come to an agreed-upon explanation for how R. Kelly managed to get any amount of money at all to make a mostly plotless masturbatory ode to his disjointed and laughably paranoid leftist views.
My friends and I each have our competing theories as to why exactly this movie was made:
Friend 1: Kelly actually wants the movie to change some people's minds about...something(?). I think this has about a 34% chance of being the case, because I've read an interview where R. Kelly himself admits that the 'point' of the movie is obscure even to him, and the fact that if he really wanted to change people's minds he would have done about three less bong hits while planning out the narrative flow of the movie.
Friend 2: This a big test to see if people will actually come to the movie's defense while R. Kelly sits behind the scenes and laughs at anyone who tries to make sense of his big 'fuck you'. I'll give this one an 11% chance, because the theory was proposed by someone who hated Donny Darko and I'm merely ambivalent about DD. Of course, this movie does feature Kevin Smith in makeup that can only be described as 'horrifically obvious' and a Killers music video/Bud Light advertisement that pretty much defines "irrelevant unnecessity" so I feel the 11% might be a tad conservative.
Mine: The movie is a way to inflict people with PTSD so that the true plight of veterans is made clear for everyone. While some of the throwaway lines are sorta clever/humorous (the "The future will be far more futuristic" line in particular is something I'd expect to hear in Futurama) the vast majority are downright dissonance-inducing, meaning you leave the experience while your mind futilely tries to make sense of how someone can say something like "We sent monkeys through the time portal" with a straight face, or how a movie can exist that is built on such brain benders. Eventually you're forced to seek out the counsel of others who have been through the same traumatic experience or steadily devolve into madness.
But that's just the three theories I'm most familiar with. With something this stupidly expansive there's bound to be more.