we were tossing between lars von trier's antichrist (2009) and this film. my brother promised to pass von trier's film as he said that movie is no-no for family viewing.
man on the moon is not an easy viewing either. not that i expected anything vanilla, but still, if not for milos forman (amadeus (1984), one flew over the cuckoo's nest (1975)), it could be more incoherent.
it is because of the subject matter - the chameleon-like-but-not-really-funny andy kaufman? his kind of funnies is not really funny in the strictest sense - i am no comedian because he seems to have a cult following - the kind of hoaxes he did challenges what funny means - and what matters is that he finds them funny, it doesn't have to be everyone's cup of tea.
or, it is due to the story telling the story adopts? it is not as linear as the life and death of peter sellers (2004) as we were shown various facets of seller's life - as the gifted immature selfish comedian to the immature selfish son and husband that he was. there's not a lot of air time for andy kaufman as a person outside his comedian role, perhaps not enough his known about his personal life, or that he wears his role outside his professional life.
my brother, my gf and i were weirded out of our wits. may be that's the whole point - the guy is baffling and there is no keeping up with him.
haha. yr bro is right! Antichrist definitely a no no for family watching!
ReplyDeletebtw, ll try to find this film. i found Jim Carrey interesting lately :)