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Summary: ...
Review: Immediately after seeing this movie, I wished I'd never watched it. But I was also glad that I did. A movie that sets out to shock you and ends up disgusting you, can only be brilliant. If you think you can stomach it, see it by all means.
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Summary: Dark Humor At It's Best
Review: This is one of the best and most truthful movies i've ever seen. I'm so glad the director had the guts to portray suburbia as never seen before. It finally told the gut-wrenching, comical yet ingenial truth of what everone tries to keep hush. This movie definitely makes you view the world differently and makes you realize that not everyone is as innocent as they appear to be. Although, this is NOT for everybody-those who get offended easily will not enjoy it; but, those who like independent and/or truthful movies and black comedies will.
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Summary: Ahead of it's time or long overdue! Truth!
Review: Congratulations to the film makers that pave the way for something so fresh and brutal. It is twisted but so is life. If you are a fan of black humor, this is a must see.
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Summary: Finally, reality on-screen
Review: This was the most breathtakingly REAL film I've seen in years: a true slice of life from the REAL America, which Hollywood usually tries so hard to whitewash over. There is no lazy, comfortingly formulaic outcomes or cheap moralizing here---just beautifully brutal and brutally beautiful honesty. The humor is jet-black, subtle and brilliant. A lot of people are not going to like this film's refusal to give them what they're used to seeing or what they would like to see of themselves and the world they inhabit. A lot of little universes are bound to be disturbed by this film---and justly so, if not long overdue.
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Summary: Brutally good
Review: Todd Solondz casts a light on some of societies more repellant members, crafting a brutal comdey that refuses to demonize its characters. This is what people find so objectionable, that the truly abhorrent characters are not protrayed as demonic monsters, but as your next door neighbor and possible "super dad". Its not easy, and its not supposed to be. If you want easy cartoon characters of suburbia go buy American Beauty, a film that owes a deep debt to Happiness. This was a wonderfully crafted film that hits the hot buttons all around, and helps put to rest a lot of the self-serving irony found in typical Hollywood fare.
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Summary: I have a proposal
Review: Happiness is rather revealing film. It reminds me of the movie I saw a few years ago - Gummo. It was totally devastating. Happiness is more mild and I had an impression that Mr.Solondz outlook is that of a weak person. Of course there is a lot of garbage in the human life and human nature but it takes a strong person to live through it and make it better instead of concenttrating on this with a sick pleasure. I do not agree that art is necessarily dark and hopeless and to create art film you have to "tell the truth". Yes, people do go through the bad times in their lifes - it's a common knowledge. But what is the point of throwing it back to their faces? To show that you are sophisticated and familiar with the disgusting aspects of life? I think that the main function of Happiness is to demonstrate the one extreme of the American life. On the other side is the happy idiocy of the You've Got Mail characters. I think no real life person can feel affinity with the inhabitants of either movie. Of course I am not serious but I'd like to see the double feature DVD - Happiness/You've Got Mail. The truth is somewhere between.
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Summary: I wanted to vomit.
Review: Feeling the physical/emotional/spritual need to puke may be a sign of catharsis, but if it is, well, I think Aristotle was barking up the wrong tree. This movie, however intelligent or brilliantly executed, managed to make me less appreciative of life. I wish that I had never seen it...but is my life better for watching this movie? To be sure, it has immersed me, for two+ hours, in the most depressing and ugly state of the human condition that I have encountered before. But I do not really think that this is good for the soul. Ugh. Ick. Puke. I only hope that now I can manage to exorcise the filth that I let work it way inside me. Wish me luck.
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Summary: Great Movie - Awful DVD
Review: Nothing more needs to be said about how excellent this film is. HOWEVER, if you get the DVD, it is one of the worst quality transfers ever...there is so much pixelization and artifacting that people's heads actually pulsate and change in some of the close-ups. Unwatchable. TRIMARK should be ashamed to release such a travesty. Are all of their DVD's so cheaply made? Buy the VHS instead.
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Summary: A waste of effort from a good director
Review: This movie is nothing short of disturbing. While I found the direction to be excellent, one has to ask his/herself whether they wish to be lead down the path of disgust. I managed to make it through the whole movie but felt slightly sick afterwards. I felt myself wondering if it was worth it after 2 hours of delving into the torturous lives of a few very messed-up people. A few tidbits of positivity would have gone a long way in this film. instead we get cynicism at it's peak.
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Summary: One sick & twisted film.
Review: This is quite a disturbing and challenging film. It is entertaining in a sick sort of way; but after it was over, I wished I hadn't seen it. The direction and acting were good, but the story was just too disturbing for me. I definitely would not recommend this to anyone.
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