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Harmony Korine
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From the bowels of Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy comes the latest celluloid excrement from writer/director Harmony Korine. A milk-curdling tale of a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton, you poor thing) who adopts a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) and whisks him away to a commune inhabited by fellow celebrity look-alikes, where everyone is more happy playing someone else rather than themselves (Hello, execution). There is also a side project happening within the film in which Werner Herzog pilots nuns over villages to drop food, perhaps an idea for another film that was abandoned after Mr. Offbeat couldn’t think of an ending. Of course, not every film needs a fascinating plot. There are those certain Brechtian films that draw us in for their absurd beauty and small dioramas of human truth like Holy Mountain or anything by Kenneth Anger. Mister Lonely does have these minute moments -- sometimes charming for their naivety, but mostly lost and downright insulting. One might get the feeling that Mr. Korine, an extremely quick and witty personality in his own right, is playing a joke on you. “How long can the stranger stand my innermost perversions and passing thoughts put to film?” he must wonder. Admittedly, I’m fond of Mr. Korine. I’ve had many Harmony classmates back in film school, the type that are always putting the final cross-hatches on a naked woman with a unicorn horn and visible intestines on their notebooks or filming their friends pissing on a perfect four-leaf clover. Don’t get me wrong, I love those guys. But, rarely do I wish to see the drivel that leaks from their art journals into their creative “projects.”
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