Just watched the movie World's Greatest Dad, and it was a very odd feeling. In the first half of the movie, I somehow found it unbearable. And then something happened, and I felt my brain just got turned up side down.
I know what the story is trying to say and imply. And to a certain extend I thought I should love the movie because it's very pro-alternative, pro-geek and pro-individualism. After, this is what indie movie is about, right? We don't want to the same old formula Hollywood style movie. We don't have cheap emotion. We want something raw but poetic, beautiful in a bitter way, approachable but not compromising. Right? Well, this movie does all of that.
But somehow, deep down inside, I found this movie pretty hard to swallow.
Maybe, I think, the movie is too real to me. It's almost seeing my own funeral, something that was cool when in imagination, but unbearably painful when you actually look at it.
And for that reason, maybe I should watch the movie again.
Friday, September 04, 2009
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