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...Unlike Moore's movies, Spurlock's don't split their seams with ideas and nervous energy. For all their edifying political ambitions, they are closer to doper comedies, with Spurlock as a Cheech, Bill or Harold searching for a Chong, Ted or Kumar. (In his new movie, during a visit to an Orthodox neighborhood in Israel, he actually addresses one Hasidic man as "Dude.") Here's this guy doing these nutty things - all those McNuggets, all those Muslims - and behaving as if he'd just taken a toke of something stronger than a Marlboro Lite. In the recent history...
...Take Jacob, for instance. He was not always the grim and asexual idealist he appears to be. At one time he was a doper and a drunk idling his life away in third-world squalor. It is why Helene (Jorgen's sensual yet sensible wife, limpidly played by Sidse Babett Knudsen) long ago left him. And why she is startled to encounter him as a new self, stern and rectitudinous. It's the same way with Jorgen. Underneath his affability there is a willful and angry self-made man - and a brutality that is openly manifested in a drunken restaurant...
...Birks and have to get them re-caulked...meet me in Lowell at 4:20...I have to go to Newbury Comics to buy the latest Phish CD...” OR “God, I hate Patagonia—my Northface fleece is so much doper than that shit...I’m going to a hip hop concert later at the B-Side Lounge. Wanna come?...I snagged my Stussy pants on my longboard today. It was the worst...
...Doper" is a 20-minute documentary on the lifestyle of a working-class, post-high school stoner, who has no difficulty in remaining high every waking hour and still winning the "Employee of the Month Award" at the factory at which he works. The film is subtly humorous, but remarkably nonjudgmental in its delivery...
...exactly like anything you've seen before, but that doesn't mean that they are overwhelmingly radical or alternative to all mainstream culture. "Pleasant Hill, USA" has a TV news-magazine quality to it; the animation in "Facrie Film" is not all that innovative, and the dialogue in "Doper" is much like the dialogue in most films specifically targeted to teens. But just because these films draw on aspects of mainstream culture does not make them less interesting or unustral. The "Best of the New York Underground" remains an alternative to what you'll see on the big screen today...