• Rottcodd@lemmy.ninja
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    1 year ago

    Happiness - Todd Solondz

    It’s the dark, seedy, perverted underbelly of the American dream, equal parts funny and creepy, and brilliantly cast and acted.

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      This was the first movie I thought of too! I saw it when it was released in an art house theatre. I didn’t know much about it, and apparently most of the audience didn’t either. Once the film got to that scene where the guy buys a teen boy magazine and climbs into the back of the car to…you know….a bunch of people just got up and walked out!

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        Yeah… that’s the first moment when the mask starts to slip, and you realize you’re in for something entirely different than what it initially appeared to be.

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      1 year ago

      Came here to say this one. I really want to revisit this one as it’s been prob close to 20 years since my first viewing.