I knew exactly what I was getting myself into with this. It's a legendary film for how nasty it is and it's exactly what I expected. What made me curious enough to watch it was how much of it was staged. It's pretty obvious what's real and what's fake which leads to a strange experience.
Honestly what shocked me most was how blasé it treated a lot of the real footage compared to the fake stuff. They add the most tense and dramatic music to the staged scenes to desperately convince the audience that that - say - a man is getting eaten by a crocodile that's obviously not there and yet some of the real footage features some very intentionally comical music to its real segments. For instance, there's some footage here of a suicide that is accompanied by fucking swing music. It's an incredibly insensitive film and a pretty stupid one to boot.
If this kind of film interests you check out the far superior The Killing Of America (1981) that handles its subjects with much more gravitas, intelligence and skill. Watch this for bragging rights only.
I knew exactly what I was getting myself into with this. It's a legendary film for how nasty it is and it's exactly what I expected. What made me curious enough to watch it was how much of it was staged. It's pretty obvious what's real and what's fake which leads to a strange experience.
Honestly what shocked me most was how blasé it treated a lot of the real footage compared to the fake stuff. They add the most tense and dramatic music to the staged scenes to desperately convince the audience that that - say - a man is getting eaten by a crocodile that's obviously not there and yet some of the real footage features some very intentionally comical music to its real segments. For instance, there's some footage here of a suicide that is accompanied by fucking swing music. It's an incredibly insensitive film and a pretty stupid one to boot.
If this kind of film interests you check out the far superior The Killing Of America (1981) that handles its subjects with much more gravitas, intelligence and skill. Watch this for bragging rights only.
