"i don't think you're insane."
"you don't?"
"no."
"you don't think I'm an eensie weensie bit insane?"
"i don't think you're insane. I think you're just spoiled."
"oh, please, if everyone around here is going to start telling the truth, I'm going to bed."
from the same director of ‘mean girls’ and ‘freaky friday’, ‘the house of yes’ was one of his earliest projects - and probably the most campy one also. this film is truly absurd - and it took me like 4 days to actually finish it, i have no idea why but it was a great film. it explores a dysfunctional family dynamic during a thanksgiving from the 1980s - a man brings his girlfriend to his bizarre family - jackie-o, his twin sister who cosplays as jackie kennedy, his younger brother and highly eccentric mother. starting off relatively normal, more insane plot-points get slowly introduced - such as jackie-o being intensely jealous of her twin-brother having a girlfriend, which was later revealed to have been a drawn out incestuous relationship. this film explores ideas of trying to break away from a corrupt family, or a social satire on the class divide between the family and the girlfriend. honestly, this is significantly underrated and it’s upsetting how low the number of watches this has on here - it’s an independent comedy that just crosses the boarders that are often not crossed, with insane wit and sharp dialogue. the main reason i wanted to watch this was for the queen herself, parker posey - who i really haven’t seen enough of. the way she portrays this mentally disabled woman who obsesses other jackie kennedy with so much emotion: conveying the character as psychotic and sympathetic all in one. this film is super quotable, and is honestly filled with so many darkly comedic, iconic lines that live rent free in my mind. it uses perverse, subversive humour to dissect uncomfortable themes of mental illness and incest, and it totally works. fully worth a watch - and deserves a lot more recognition honestly.
"i don't think you're insane."
"you don't?"
"no."
"you don't think I'm an eensie weensie bit insane?"
"i don't think you're insane. I think you're just spoiled."
"oh, please, if everyone around here is going to start telling the truth, I'm going to bed."
from the same director of ‘mean girls’ and ‘freaky friday’, ‘the house of yes’ was one of his earliest projects - and probably the most campy one also. this film is truly absurd - and it took me like 4 days to actually finish it, i have no idea why but it was a great film. it explores a dysfunctional family dynamic during a thanksgiving from the 1980s - a man brings his girlfriend to his bizarre family - jackie-o, his twin sister who cosplays as jackie kennedy, his younger brother and highly eccentric mother. starting off relatively normal, more insane plot-points get slowly introduced - such as jackie-o being intensely jealous of her twin-brother having a girlfriend, which was later revealed to have been a drawn out incestuous relationship. this film explores ideas of trying to break away from a corrupt family, or a social satire on the class divide between the family and the girlfriend. honestly, this is significantly underrated and it’s upsetting how low the number of watches this has on here - it’s an independent comedy that just crosses the boarders that are often not crossed, with insane wit and sharp dialogue. the main reason i wanted to watch this was for the queen herself, parker posey - who i really haven’t seen enough of. the way she portrays this mentally disabled woman who obsesses other jackie kennedy with so much emotion: conveying the character as psychotic and sympathetic all in one. this film is super quotable, and is honestly filled with so many darkly comedic, iconic lines that live rent free in my mind. it uses perverse, subversive humour to dissect uncomfortable themes of mental illness and incest, and it totally works. fully worth a watch - and deserves a lot more recognition honestly.
