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re: "You think anyone thinks I'm a failure, because I go home to Starla at night?!"
Posted on 5/27/15 at 7:16 am to Henry Jones Jr
Posted on 5/27/15 at 7:16 am to Henry Jones Jr
The movie is obviously extremely terrible. It's also extremely quotable though and that's all that matters
Posted on 5/27/15 at 7:28 am to Dr. Shultz
I disagree that it's a terrible movie
quote:
Napoleon Dynamite is a movie that few people really got, IMO. It is one of the best illustrations of what it feels like to be lonely, that I have ever seen. The whole damn movie is about portraying the many forms of loneliness. All the main characters feel disconnected, misunderstood, and have nobody to relate to.
Napoleon has no friends and lives in fantasy land. He is shunned by everybody. His brother is self-deluded, wanting to be a cage fighter but staying home all the time desperately seeing love and attention on the internet. Their grandmother is never there for them, though she has a full life of her own ( a twist on real life situation of the elderly). They live next to a huge field... reinforcing the feeling of isolation. Almost every home in the film is shown isolated, actually. Their uncle lives alone on a trailer in the middle of nowhere, obsessed about the past. Pedro is latin and barely intellingible, oddly attired, alien in every sense of the word.
Not even the protagonists seem to truly connect... their dialogues are always a little awkward, as if 80% of the message was received only, often rolling along without any conclusions being reached. There are little details also... like how Napoleon seldom looks at someone in the eyes, in fact his eyes remain barely open throughout the film. Minor details that add to the sense of disconnection.
In the end the protagonists defeat their loneliness: the uncle gets a girlfriend and gets over the past, his brother gets a girlfriend who is clearly in love with him, Pedro becomes president and Napoleon's dance makes him popular, but even so you don't really get that great a sense of satisfaction by the time it's over. You get a sense that there's so much more that Napoleon needs and that it's not due anytime soon. In fact he does not embrace the popularity at the end, he runs away. He does not have the emotional tools to deal with any of this. He is still fundamentally an isolated creature.
In the end most people can never really put a finger on what made them feel odd about watching this film... while it is overtly a comedy, the circumstances presented leave you no choice but to feel disheartened... questions pop in your head which make you uncomfortable but are not ever addressed: where are Napoleon's *parents*, for instance? It is a plot point that could be cleared up with one short phrase but isn't. You're just left to wonder if they abandoned Napoleon, or died, or something of the sort. Whatever happened, we are given little closure, just a bit more discomfort with what we see. It is a discomfort that the filmmaker builds upon more and more, punctuated with absurdist humor which makes you legitimately confused about how you *should* feel.
It is cleverly disguised as a silly comedy but most people who watch it with that preconception end up a bit confused and with a bitter taste in their mouths... it's a bit too surreal and a bit too dark...
that's because it's not a comedy at all.
This post was edited on 5/27/15 at 7:47 am
Posted on 5/27/15 at 7:41 am to Pilot Tiger
Where'd you copy and paste that from?
Posted on 5/27/15 at 7:43 am to LNCHBOX
reddit
specifically /u/Minsc_and_Boo_
specifically /u/Minsc_and_Boo_
This post was edited on 5/27/15 at 7:46 am
Posted on 5/27/15 at 10:03 am to Scruffy
quote:
That movie is terrible.
There are no ways around that. It is terrible on every level.
Scruffy knows what's up. Movie sucks
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:03 pm to Pilot Tiger
I like the way the poster for the movie said it better, "He's out to prove, he's got nothing to prove" lol
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:14 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Uncle Rico
Real Genius came on the other day and just realized that Lazlo = Uncle Rico.
I know, far out
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:18 pm to jose canseco
I've never been able to finish.
Fall asleep Everytime I try to watch it
Fall asleep Everytime I try to watch it
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:19 pm to wildtigercat93
Because you don't have great skills. Like nunchuck skills.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:52 pm to Byron Bojangles III
I don't get that joke. Must've happened past the 30 minute mark
Posted on 5/27/15 at 1:51 pm to Rattlehead82
Your MOM goes to college.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 2:00 pm to Fewer Kilometers
3.5 stars! down vote to the nega-tigers!
"Grandma took a little spill at the sand dunes today. Broke her coccyx."
"Grandma took a little spill at the sand dunes today. Broke her coccyx."
Posted on 5/27/15 at 2:01 pm to lsufan112001
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“Knock it off, Napoleon! Make yourself a dang quesadilla!”
Posted on 5/27/15 at 2:16 pm to Henry Jones Jr
It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed… bred for its skills in magic
Posted on 5/27/15 at 2:23 pm to lsufan112001
"Tina you fat lard come get some dinner!"
Posted on 5/27/15 at 2:24 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Tina! Come get your ham!
Posted on 5/27/15 at 5:21 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Didn't care for it the first time I saw it, but I've come to love it. Kip's the best.
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