This man, Kyril Zach, is always interesting to watch. His gestures are articulated without being overblown, and camera positions suggest at least modest experience with the art of placing a recording box and pointing it. All the action is absurd, but with some “merely odd” touches dripped a...
He can get stoned and act crazy, or he can react silently to another character’s jokes, landing laughs from both choices. He can offer an encouraging, supportive conversation with a woman suffering from dementia, and he can break down over his own experiences struggles with the disease. The...
We get to know Oscar much better, but almost wish we hadn’t. He seems a bit dull—he’s unable to grasp the concepts in The Book of the Dead, which his brighter friend Alex patiently explains to him for the audience’s benefit—but maybe the problem is that he’s too stoned to ...
"I used to watch it all the time as a kid, but recently I watched it stoned, and it just took on a whole new level. Very fun to watch." —u/Dannyboi93 IMDb synopsis: "When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth —...
The core idea for the movie originated when the Coens considered making a short film about a boy who attends his bar mitzvah stoned. As the story expanded from that scene, the idea was originally to make the father and son’s stories of equal weight, but as the script evolved the story...
but the movie’s too stoned to keep its mind on one thing before wandering off to the next cool concept. Consider the film’s climax, where Zed is trapped inside the hall of mirrors in the crystal Tabernacle (whose determination to destroy him manifests itself as the cast performing interpr...
eyelash stretching its tentacles unnaturally around the lower half of his eyeball. He toasts the audience with a tall glass of white liquid, and the camera pulls back to reveal the milk bar, the most surreal tableau in the movie. We now see Alex’s three stoned companions, dressed in ...