OK. Now there are a couple documentaries that really capture the texture of what I experienced growing up. One is Heavy Metal Parking Lot and the other is American Movie. Both are incredible, and I will likely get to posting about the former some day, but I have to make comment about how much I love the latter one for sure. It's of the pathetic ilk of a Napoleon Dynamite character (a movie I actually disliked) desparetely directing a horror movie; but unlike Napoleon, it's the real deal. It's endearing. And it rocks.
If not just illuminating on the many other qualities of the human condition, American Movie certainly demonstrates that the dream of creating a film is one thing, but the grand effort it takes -- both physical and emotional -- to actually get one in the can, is entirely another. It takes near infinate determination (regardless of whether he/she's got any other talent or vision to lend to the project). This guy is most definitely and undeniably sh*tfaced on a movie bender.
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