It's a mix between him watching the girl, with pleasure, having a seizure...
Or the scene where he asks the cabbie to drive his car.
also loved this sentence used on imdb user review, well stated.
"As you watch The Comedy, you will laugh. There are definitely scenes of laugh out loud silliness and gross out humor. But this is not a comedy! The jokes all have a point and it's a point that is most definitely not funny."
"with pleasure"
what? he just looks bored out of his mind, which obviously isn't an appropriate reaction either.
the way he talks about his brother and father to his sister is a bit disturbing. but the most tense scene, to me, was probably in the club talking to the black guys.
For me, it was Eric and his friend blowing out the prayer candles in the church.
I understand the traditions of religion seem arbitrary and they're poking fun of it ala the "magic sticks", but that stuff means a lot to certain people and people I personally know (parents, grandparents...etc)
It felt soul crushing.
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Yeah, the film was ultimately tame and I didn't really find anything disturbing. It was beautifully shot though.
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I thought him playing with the kid at the beach at the end was disturbing, he was more of a child than the actual child, and then he yells at the kid and the kid screams in pain as the screen goes black.
he was yelling playfully. unless I missed something, I don't know how that could be construed as disturbing at all.
shareDisturbing may have been a poor choice of words, awkward/uncomfortable likely a better choice.
shareWhen he yells at the kid for the last time, I personally found it to sound menacing, and felt a tonal shift, as if Heidecker's character had taken it a little too far.
shareThat yell, and that whole scene with the kid, was Heidecker's redemption. He expresses sincere pleasure and lives unironically in the moment. He's finally found a person with whom he feels safe being vulnerable with emotional exhibition - a child. The boy has not yet learned the regressive adult game of superiority-through-greater-cynicism and won't engage Tim in a miserability pissing contest (like his friends) nor will the kid maturely ignore Tim's provocations as a transparent effort to deflect accountability by casting himself as a villain (like everyone else). With the boy, Heidecker can finally shed his self-destructive defenses.
This scene is the opposite of disturbing. It is the only uplifting moment in the film.
well stated straightarm...
shareThat's your opinion, and a good one, but I wouldn't say there's definitive evidence that's the only interpretation one could have to the final scene, and I don't really evidence for it being Heidecker's redemption.
shareYou're using a bunch of big words I don't understand. Since I don't understand most of what you're saying I'm gonna go ahead and take that as disrespect. F U
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