“There are many weird wonderful movies that we’ve all seen by this point in our lives. In 1984,…”
Thursday, November 6th, 2014“
There are many weird wonderful movies that we’ve all seen by this point in our lives. In 1984, I’m 14 years old, this is the most weird and wonderful thing I’ve ever seen.
It is a movie that defies every possible genre and convention of the genre that it pretends to dance with. This movie is so fucking individual it just sweeps you off your feet. I was just taken away. It is a movie that does not conform to any traditional storytelling that you’re used to from years of watching movies.
It doesn’t give a shit whether you know what’s going on or not. It dumps you right into the middle of an existing universe that things have happened in before, and the movie accepts the fact that hey, our audience might be bright enough to catch up. And when they do they’ll really enjoy it. If not, they’re just going to be stupefied by everything that’s going on. Maybe they’ll catch it second time.
It takes you weird, wonderful places that few films that I’d ever seen at that point in my life, certainly, and even to this day, have ever done. By virtue of that, there is no better definition or label for this movie, if you have to put a label on it, than art film. This is a true piece of art. It doesn’t give a fuck what you bring to the table. It brings itself to the table and says, “Figure it out.”
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– Kevin Smith at the 49th New York Film Festival screening of Buckaroo Banzai
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