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All of the culture of the world conspired to make me pre-loathe the thing that is M dot Strange's WE ARE THE STRANGE. It's seemingly dished-out to a culture of kiddies tittering with their friends about who gets it and who doesn't. I have to tell you I'm not sure who gets what. From the title to the delivery format, there isn't much that isn't being fucked with. But this is no "lets go around the neighborhood killing cats" monkey shit. There are no slick naked monkeys here.
M dot Strange seems to have grabbed all the rough sloppy edges of the interworld and made himself a cake. I'm thinking about those critters right now. Sitting in a box on a palette in a storage container. 63 cartridges from Atari and Activision that we played on our JCPenny tele-system. All this time I thought they were lying there unconscious. But now I know they were only locked in. In WE ARE THE STRANGE, M Dot has set the 8-bit orphans from his closet loose--let them have a supervised walk on the grounds, given them license to put on a little show to help keep their sanity--and damned if they didn't get away from him for a little while and churn out the big show. Along the way they tortured a couple of old toys in a box nearby and were haunted by cultural norms that have long since broken free from any referent. That thing they call anime.
There are so many maneuvers here I have trouble containing my glee. Seven soundtracks were included on the DVD set. Which helps itune-baby-take-your-music-with-you junkies engage in close reading by tricking them into viewing it multiple times and in multiple ways. Film professors take note. (This multiple soundtrack strategy seems to be a favorite technique of the new self-distribution set.)
Seriously folks: The two most important films of 2007 are WE ARE THE STRANGE and THERE WILL BE BLOOD. Extra points if you can figure out what they have in common. The answer is written in super-mega-hella-invisible font color below:
A: They take form and knock it off its hinges.
A2: They both inspire me.
You can view the entire film in lo-res glory here.
You can view the film in 720p HD here.
Or you can show some love and buy the dvd.
