The Last Days of the World

I watched the whole thing
Obviously, having just watched the entire thing through should not qualify it for 5 stars, right? WRONG! No, wait, you are right. This movie reminded me of Donny Darko, which wouldn't qualify it for five stars either. But, where Donny Darko is moody and cinema-graphic, The Last Days of the World is shot in a perfunctory and basic manner, which is another crazy choice, given the occasional forays into fantasy. It has elements of "Natural Born Killers," if Tarantino and Oliver Stone were switched out with Bukowski and Cassavetes. But still, an art film? Dada? I don't think so.

The music, or the soundtrack is as curious as the film itself. It begins with a very familiar and cliche' harmonica based "movie music," that gets absorbed by dissonant guitars.

This movie, and what makes it so watchable is that it repeatedly makes the same old promises of magic realism, but it fulfills the promises with nihilistic realism. There is no detectable eroticism in the...

Huh?
The end of the world means the guy gets to kidnap a girl and force her to have sex with him? Sick!!!

It is an art flick
Apparently dada'ism has not died. I consider that a good thing. Yea... it doesn't make a whole lot of since. But if you enjoy some dada in your life, then you won't likely care. The film doesn't take itself too seriously and has some pretty funny parts. Probably wouldn't hurt to be a little drunk when watching this.

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