A Flawed But Enjoyable Independent Film
Each year at the film festival I always manage to find a small independent film that I might not have otherwise had the chance to see, the kind of film that will make the festival and art house circuit but is unlikely to flicker across screens at the suburban multiplex.
Previously it was a clever little death by milk comedy called Expiration Date. This year it's another Seattle-filmed flick called Visioneers.
Thematically reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Visioneers is the story of George (comedian Zack Galifianakis), a man with dreams stuck in a drab world of mindless conformity and desperately wishes for a way out amid a growing national crisis in which the emotional and the discontent inexplicably explode. His absent brother, having extricated himself from society, returns and moves into the pool house with designs on becoming a pole vaulter, and George realizes that his brother is truly free – free from the constraints of society and free from the risk of unnecessarily exploding.
Previously it was a clever little death by milk comedy called Expiration Date. This year it's another Seattle-filmed flick called Visioneers.
Thematically reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Visioneers is the story of George (comedian Zack Galifianakis), a man with dreams stuck in a drab world of mindless conformity and desperately wishes for a way out amid a growing national crisis in which the emotional and the discontent inexplicably explode. His absent brother, having extricated himself from society, returns and moves into the pool house with designs on becoming a pole vaulter, and George realizes that his brother is truly free – free from the constraints of society and free from the risk of unnecessarily exploding.
Visioneers is a bizarre and off-kilter black comedy that benefits from its freshness and originality while at the same time skewering social conventions and making insightful and meaningful comments about the society in which we live.
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