My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Director: Werner Herzog
Year Released: 2009
Rating: 1.0
It's about as thin as the newspaper article that detailed the real-life incident years ago. San Diego-based acting student Brad (Michael Shannon, slowly becoming type-cast as 'main crazy guy'), following a trip to Peru, returns to his mother's house and becomes more and more insane - he's acting in The Oresteia and he becomes convinced the play is real. Naturally, this is all done with Herzog's sense of the bizarre (David Lynch produced the movie) and contains a basketball in a tree, glasses-eating ostriches, awkward line-readings and scenery chewing (hey there, Brad Dourif), pink flamingoes and, of course, a midget. The 'flashbacks' that showcase Brad's Greatest Hits of Weirdness do little to make his character multi-dimensional, and the interview with Herzog in the DVD supplements is more enlightening than the actual movie (like many people, I could listen to the good director for hours).
