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- Jun 3, 2011
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i endured the truly atrocious The Death Of Dick Long - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9356952/reference/
TDODL is a competently filmed, well acted piece of garbage that tells the story of a southern community slowly unravelling the truth about redneck Richard Long's untimely demise - he got himself buttfucked by a horse, to death.
Virginia Newcombe has the main role (if not the most screentime) as Long's friend's wife; the scene where she is being told the truth is, well, realistic. Which is what is really weird about this film. It's well made.
See, in theory TDODL is a dark-humor comedy / drama, but it takes itse;f suuuuuuuper seriously, for having an absolutely shit script. There is no tension whatsoever. The choice to make the death a comedy - complete with Roy Wood Jr delivering the line ".. from a horse" with his trademark Sad Face, is puzzling, and doesn't pay. If we are going to invest ourselves into a real human drama, it must be something relatable. I don't see anything but the mundane in a man chasing the glory of the world's widest gape, and TDODL is just a film about a story that happened, and that's it. There is nothing remarkable about it, there is no great, hidden existential meaning, no life lesson that really needed to be put on screen.
Instead we are just left ot watch mundane characters go about their mundane business for a story that holds no special meaning. Why anyone thought this was a script worth putting on film, is beyond me.
At least Swiss Army Man was fun.
My vote: 5.5/10
*when i wrote about Swiss Army Man, i didnt know it was from the same director*
TDODL is a competently filmed, well acted piece of garbage that tells the story of a southern community slowly unravelling the truth about redneck Richard Long's untimely demise - he got himself buttfucked by a horse, to death.
Virginia Newcombe has the main role (if not the most screentime) as Long's friend's wife; the scene where she is being told the truth is, well, realistic. Which is what is really weird about this film. It's well made.
See, in theory TDODL is a dark-humor comedy / drama, but it takes itse;f suuuuuuuper seriously, for having an absolutely shit script. There is no tension whatsoever. The choice to make the death a comedy - complete with Roy Wood Jr delivering the line ".. from a horse" with his trademark Sad Face, is puzzling, and doesn't pay. If we are going to invest ourselves into a real human drama, it must be something relatable. I don't see anything but the mundane in a man chasing the glory of the world's widest gape, and TDODL is just a film about a story that happened, and that's it. There is nothing remarkable about it, there is no great, hidden existential meaning, no life lesson that really needed to be put on screen.
Instead we are just left ot watch mundane characters go about their mundane business for a story that holds no special meaning. Why anyone thought this was a script worth putting on film, is beyond me.
At least Swiss Army Man was fun.
My vote: 5.5/10
*when i wrote about Swiss Army Man, i didnt know it was from the same director*
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