With the initial imagery from the trailer, I was immediately in. It was like, "Boom, yes, who doesn't want another quirky, emotionally disturbing Charlie Kaufman-Spike Jonze-y kinda film starring Simon Pegg of Shaun of the Dead." And then I kept watching only to find myself audibly asking the computer screen, "Wait, what?"
I watched it twice, read a quick synopsis and even sent it to a friend whose response was "The writer/director's probably some British dude who's fragmented plot-line and/or 'humor' just doesn't translate." And while Crispian Mills, the writer and co-director, is in fact a Brit, maybe that has nothing to do with it, maybe his pseudo-intellectualism is just over my head.
Because let's be honest, what's up with the hedgehog?
So now I hope I don't regret asking you all this, but I turn it to you. Is it intentionally confusing, is it an over-the-pond I'm-an-American thing, or am I just in need of a serious schooling on metaphoric movie making?
As a brit, it was still strange.
Dat Hair!
I thought it was obviously about a guy suffering from Panphobia (aka the fear of everything) and his wild imaginations driving his fears.
Victorian serial killers, stop-motion, and Simon Pegg? How do they know my tastes so well?! Getting paranoid...
Looks interesting but...
... pseudo-intellectualism? I knew those words but I had to look it up on Urban Dictionary. My main source for pseudo-knowledge.
yea that started out kinda interesting but than it just went a bit to weird
I'm not high.
@CommanderZx2 said:
Sounds about right to me.
It's about a guy who's is scared of everything, because of some childhood event which seems like it involved a knife, a hedgehog and a laundrette. Presumably writing about getting into the mind of a killer for a children's book sparked this so perhaps that was involved in this childhood event too? Seems like a legitimate plot line to me.
If it turns out that he killed a hedgehog in a laundrette with a knife as a child as a result of some panic attack about a fear of everything, then I want to win some sort of prize...preferentially financially.
There is no way that it isn't weird though or at least super quirky. The humour seems charming rather than funny and I think it's probably a quite serious tip of the hat to Wes Anderson, except quirkier.
This looks great and Simon Pegg looks crazy with that hair! The hedgehog looks.....freaky as well
I didn't really understand any of what was going on in that trailer, but I am going to watch it anyway
Coming to a Ginema near you!
Looks fine to me. Looks great.
I liked what I saw. Definitely going to be checking that out.
Looks rad.
Yeah, sure I get it, just don't ask me to explain or anything.
Ah, I remember the Sri Lankan girl from a Doctor Who episode. I had to look that up just now, as the face struck me as someone I'd seen before. She was great in that episode.
anything simon peg does is greatly welcomed
Not the weirdest thing I've ever watched, hell not even the weirdest I've seen today, If I can sit through pretty much any Michel Gondry film I'm sure this will be fine.
This looks wonderfully messed up... hell, I survived End of Evangelion, so why the fuck not?