The below review is from my Letterboxd, spoiler free, and am curious if anyone else has seen this movie yet or is interested in watching. I highly recommend it, especially if you're a fan of Nathan Fielder/Lance Oppenheim.
5/5
When the movie finished, people quickly got up to start filing out the doors into the main lobby. Most people, myself included, had this sense of disarmament about them. I don't know if that's the right word, maybe stunned? I don't even know what I was feeling. But it reminded me distinctly of the same feeling you get when you get off a rollercoaster, especially with people who have never ridden the ride. All you can really do in the moments it ends is get up, walk away, and try describing what you felt. As a collective group, you all know what just happened. But describing it to someone won't do justice to the actual physical sensations of drops, turns, twists, plot reveals, humor, horror, shock.
My theater laughed, a lot. Especially in the first "act" where we're kind of learning about the full story of Elizabeth and Billy with Nathan, claustrophobic shots, stellar soundtrack, and all. It was funny!
But there's this kind of slow plot thread that reveals itself in the next two "acts" of the film where you learn more about Billy, and it feels like more and more air is actively being sucked from the theater. The dinner scene got out from me -- and the audience -- many concerned laughs, and eventually stunned silences. It's bewildering how Billy chooses to portray himself in the entire film. I kept having to remind myself that this is a documentary, these are real people. Whether or not they are lying or depicting a character they created or whatever, it's their words that they chose to say on what they believe is a film meant to give more transparency to the general public. And in the end, I think we did get that transparency.
charlie charlie kirky and nathan fielder crossover when?
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