Most Racist And Sexually Frustrated Man Ever goes to hell and back in this impressively bleak yet hilarious dystopian After Hours-esque night-time quest of despair, where the worst thing that can happen, will. An incisive takedown of White Male™ entitlement, presented through the lens of the titular Edmond, a guy who believes society is oppressing him, so, you know, he lashes out at the world — comprised entirely of sex workers, minorities, and innocent civilians — who refuse to give in to his demands.
In doing so, his life falls apart — he loses his marriage, his money, his rationality and sanity — and by the end he lands himself in prison, and in a darkly ironic twist of fate, he experiences freedom for the first time. This ending leans a little too ideologically conservative (and given how nowadays David Mamet has embraced right-wing politics and Trump — euugghh....), but as it stands, it's the only bit of levity in a film littered with darkness, even if it's a bit of an edgy capper.
I'm not the biggest "tongue-in-cheek" guy but this film would radically improve if it wasn't so serious about its themes and leaned a bit more into the absurdity of the world it spent the last 80 minutes building.
Most Racist And Sexually Frustrated Man Ever goes to hell and back in this impressively bleak yet hilarious dystopian After Hours-esque night-time quest of despair, where the worst thing that can happen, will. An incisive takedown of White Male™ entitlement, presented through the lens of the titular Edmond, a guy who believes society is oppressing him, so, you know, he lashes out at the world — comprised entirely of sex workers, minorities, and innocent civilians — who refuse to give in to his demands.
In doing so, his life falls apart — he loses his marriage, his money, his rationality and sanity — and by the end he lands himself in prison, and in a darkly ironic twist of fate, he experiences freedom for the first time. This ending leans a little too ideologically conservative (and given how nowadays David Mamet has embraced right-wing politics and Trump — euugghh....), but as it stands, it's the only bit of levity in a film littered with darkness, even if it's a bit of an edgy capper.
I'm not the biggest "tongue-in-cheek" guy but this film would radically improve if it wasn't so serious about its themes and leaned a bit more into the absurdity of the world it spent the last 80 minutes building.
