Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was
This is a documentary about the route of Sherman's March and how it looks today. But something happened on the way to the historic site. The film morphs into a navel gazing exercise by the director.
In the first phases of the filming he gets ditched by his girl friend (good for her) and everything after that is a search for a girl, a meaning, a way of life, a purpose, a kitchen sink of southern post bellum tics.
It is very annoying and, at the same time, riveting. What forms of personal neuroses will this loser document next?
How many fucked up southern belles will he try to impress by going after them with his camera.
Dr. Freud, Dr, Freud! What do you think the camera lens stands for?
I wanted, just once, to see how perfectly ridiculous this asshole looked living his life with a 16mm camera pressed against his face. He even kisses a few with the camera going.
I gave up halfway through to the fast forward. It was too painful to endure. It is 2 and a half hours looooooong.
I suppose this is a Best Film because it shows the extent some people will go to humiliate themselves in the name of some obscure artistic principal.
But, I don't have to enable it by watching.
I will give this one a 1 out of Netflix5.
The only thing lower is a mark that says I didn't watch it.
Almost but not quite.
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