https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-comedy-film-review/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:28:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-comedy-film-review/#comment-15806 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:14:06 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17484#comment-15806 […] cinema that speaks uncomfortable truths, look no further than right here. Read Jesse Klein’s full HTN Review as well as Susanna Locascio’s A Conversation With Rick Alverson. Available on DVD and at […]

]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-comedy-film-review/#comment-15584 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:27:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17484#comment-15584 […] challenging cinema that speaks uncomfortable truths, look no further than right here. (Jesse Klein) Read The HTN Review and A Conversation With Rick Alverson ***WATCH IT: Amazon Instant, iTunes, Vudu, InDemand, DVD […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-comedy-film-review/#comment-15096 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:42:55 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17484#comment-15096 […] The Comedy (Rick Alverson, USA, 96m, 9:30pm) —With The Comedy, Rick Alverson has held up a mirror to a culture terrified of its own reflection. Alverson uses the raw material of privileged, disaffected white males under 40 as the canvas on which to paint a pungent portrait that is hideous yet forbids us to look away. Reactions to the film thus far have ranged from a near public outcry to gushing personal affirmations of Alverson’s uncompromising vision. Like the bravest art, it has sparked fury and fawning in equal measure. Swanson (played by Tim Heidecker) is the man in the mirror. In this dramatic lead role, Heidecker becomes the Mr. Hyde to his Dr. Jekyll persona on Adult Swim‘s Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (which is its own Mr. Hyde to just about anything else). Swanson is about to inherit his father’s estate, but you wouldn’t know it to look at him; his numbed indifference is absolute. He sits in a huge wooded room bathed in sunlight, not by his father’s bedside but 20 feet away, sipping expensive whiskey and eating cream-filled cookies. Instead of offering assistance to the male nurse, he verbally assaults him, dismantling him piece-by-piece like a piece of furniture. To Swanson, all people are objects, playthings. Swanson’s endgame is satiety through stimulation, but this satisfaction is near impossible. What do you give to the boy who has everything? (Jesse Klein) *Read The Full HTN Review* […]

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