Yesterday it boiled down to 3 movies: Caligula, to which I said NOPE! (he thought I was only joking when I explained to him that it was produced by Penthouse and they altered the final product a little and it would be quite uncomfortable viewing for us) Deliverance and Dear God No. He went outside the box and surprised me by picking a documentary. One I had kind of given up on. A thoughtful meditation of the plight of poverty stricken octogenarians in major European cities.
or it's about a film crew following around a vicious serial killer. I get my doc.'s confused sometime. Anyway, he watched the first scene of Man Bites Dog about a week ago and was kind of a big NO on watching it so I was quite surprised when he said lets give it a go. After all, b&w, foreign films, I thought, were kryptonite to him. Reading?!? Eff that!
Surprisingly he enjoyed it. However, for about the first 15 minutes he didn't look happy, at all, and I think I know why. After awhile he asked "Should I be laughing at any of this?" I said "why would you be laughing at a serial killer murdering people?" to which he said "because it's kind of funny." To be fair, he wasn't laughing while there were onscreen murders but Ben, the films star, has a way about him that can be funny. The pic above kind of captures a little bit of the comedy. A serial killer lamenting violence in poor communities. So the fact that it is a very dark comedy threw him at first. Don't think this is high on his must see again list but we managed to watch a film that has two of his big no-no's, opening more doors perhaps. I'm guessing he'd give this a He said he liked it better than 3 Men and a Baby, which he thought was enjoyable fluff.
or it's about a film crew following around a vicious serial killer. I get my doc.'s confused sometime. Anyway, he watched the first scene of Man Bites Dog about a week ago and was kind of a big NO on watching it so I was quite surprised when he said lets give it a go. After all, b&w, foreign films, I thought, were kryptonite to him. Reading?!? Eff that!
Surprisingly he enjoyed it. However, for about the first 15 minutes he didn't look happy, at all, and I think I know why. After awhile he asked "Should I be laughing at any of this?" I said "why would you be laughing at a serial killer murdering people?" to which he said "because it's kind of funny." To be fair, he wasn't laughing while there were onscreen murders but Ben, the films star, has a way about him that can be funny. The pic above kind of captures a little bit of the comedy. A serial killer lamenting violence in poor communities. So the fact that it is a very dark comedy threw him at first. Don't think this is high on his must see again list but we managed to watch a film that has two of his big no-no's, opening more doors perhaps. I'm guessing he'd give this a He said he liked it better than 3 Men and a Baby, which he thought was enjoyable fluff.