Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Director: John Krasinski
Year Released: 2009
Rating: 0.0
It's a painful experience with hideous editing. Krasinski - primarily a (comedic) actor - takes the late, great David Foster Wallace's collection of monologues and tries to make a movie out of it, but at best this watered-down version of DFW's text is scattershot and unrewarding, creating the sense that most - if not all - men are degenerate scum. Krasinski has little idea of how to structure the movie, and the final product is a complete mess (Dominic Cooper's rant about his sister's rape gets inexplicably coupled with some awful music - it can serve as a film school example of how not to link text and sound). Tossing in some fleeting interviews with deranged women might have helped balance the proverbial scale (shades of gray, shades of gray...).
