I really enjoyed this movie on Netflix - it’s a pulpy sci-fi comedy, with a very enjoyable plot line that keeps revealing more as the film goes on. It has a 100% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes by the way; but the review that caught my eye was from someone who watched it in an empty theatre and was laughing so much he says he was asthmatic.
In the tradition of cult films it is full of film references of everything from 70s Blaxploitation movies to Kevin Bacon’s Hollow Man and Kubrick’s classic A Clockwork Orange, and even Nancy Drew, with the obligatory self referential pointers that a work of dramatic art must have, but there’s something more about this film that makes it an extremely apt metaphor for life today.
Without giving too much away, cocaine dealer Tyrone, hooker Coco and her pimp Slick pull at the threads of the conspiracy until they’ve unravelled the whole thing, and to me the big picture ends up being a metaphor for the past four years of elites coercing us all to becoming unwilling subjects in a grand psy-op/medical experiment.
I won’t ruin it by telling you more, but there was more than one moment in that movie when the storyline started resonating with everything I’ve been through and what I would guess you’ve been through too; but it didn’t intrude: this is no pathetic, predictable allegory, but something more, a story that truly resonates.
Warning: movie contains a lot of swearing, drug references, sexual references, but it is not a bad film in a moral sense: to my way of thinking there is nothing gratuitous in it (addendum: i just remembered there is a disturbing scene near the beginning where the protagonist runs over a drug debt), but the main characters go on a journey where they are so changed by everything that is going on that it shocks them into standing up and acting in the interest of the whole community.
And it’s funny too.
I liked this movie too, great post!