Director: Rolf de Heer
Year Released: 1994
Rating: 0.0
A grown man is confined to a small room by his morbidly obese mother who smacks him around; when he finally dispatches of her and her long-lost lover, he wanders into society like a oaf, unsure of how to behave. I don't know how de Heer can consolidate a first half hour filled with Bubby (a.) having sex with his grotesque mother (b.) torturing cats by poking them with sticks and suffocating them with plastic wrap (c.) pissing himself and (d.) eating disgusting slop with the 'compassionate' last half-hour, which has him acting as an intermediary between nurses and the disabled (featuring individuals who are actually disabled). It's exploitative, yet it wants to be tender-hearted. To make things even worse, the script is nonsensical gibberish - lots of cursing and unlikely coincidences - and draws unfortunate comparisons with Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All, only without the poetry or intelligence. Herzog's Kaspar Hauser, freed from a standard education and 'safe' thoughts was deemed dangerous by his peers; de Heer's man-child learns to like pizza, expresses interest in enormous, floppy tits and becomes the lead singer of a rock band, where he repeats the insults his mother and father shouted at him, much to the audience's delight. I absolutely detest this movie.
