Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Had to watch this while visiting family for the holidays because my mom is a huge fan of Jo Koy. This is obviously Universal doing a lower budget gamble on Koy, with its combination of cliched sentimentality, cultural specificity (in this case Filipino), and broad comedy reminiscent of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and a slew of other comedies in a similar vein.
The only funny thing about this was 30-year-old Brandon Wardell playing a high school senior.
She wears short skirts
I wear t-shirts
She's cheer captain
And I'm suffering from a rare form of immunodeficiency
There are those who create through destruction, and those who create from scratch. Von Trier acknowledges the ugly truth that great art can come out of great suffering, but he also points out the danger of that mentality by making the 'artist' literally murder people in order to create his works. Von Trier uses Jack to show how this line of thinking has no moral floor. The most risible section in this film - where Jack argues that genocide is…