Happiness
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Movie Reviews of Happiness
Movie Review: Dysfunctional Family Gone Wild!
Summary: 5 Stars
Being a long time Solondz fan, I found this to be a really good movie. The best thing about his movies is that you never know what you are going to see next. He does a great job of taking several different stories and intertwining them into one climax ala Seinfeld. Some of the subject matter was pretty disturbing, but in a funny way. I found myself laughing alot through this movie and then feeling bad about it thinking "I don't think thats supposed to be funny"! My favorite character was Allen (Phillip Seymour Hoffman). This poor guy goes through quite a bit to hook up with his neighbor. Whenever I seen him in this movie, I though of him in Boogie Nights and it just made me laugh.
This is a good movie and I would recommend it to anyone who likes alternative cinema.
Movie Review: A lovely look at humanity
Summary: 5 Stars
I think what resonated for me was Solendz' extraordinary insight to the quality of delusion-- either self-induced or reactionary-- that pervades modern life. All his characters in Happiness, and their interactions, are based to varying degrees on misconstruction, or misinterpretation, of reality: the fly in the ointment that acts as common thread and common ground for all. The perversity in the movie is just more of the same emotional/intellectual disconnect joining everyone at the hip/groin/head/hand/foot. They are all skewed. No one is truly able to see or feel the world without faulty thinking and perception altering the outcome. If it isn't their emotions getting in the way it's their thought processes. I love this movie. Recommended for anyone old enough to understand it.
Movie Review: Brutally different yet compelling film.
Summary: 5 Stars
For the most part I find many of the reviews about this film spot on. This is not your ordinary movie and it's delivery is so unique that it just has to strike you as a masterpiece. The subject matter for many of the story lines is so appaling in some cases that you are just compelled to watch and understand the feelings. The director was not going for shock value but rather to portray things most refer to as disgusting and putting a human face to them. I admit I found many of the scenes to be gross and appalling but you don't turn away fromm it instead you think about the characters emotions. These are everyday normal people who just get caught up in the absurd. The movie is so shocking that I believe everyone should see this movie even if it is very strong content.Movie Review: Sick, perverted fun
Summary: 5 Stars
Todd Solondz was the director of that lovable family feature called Welcome to the Dollhouse. Now he brings us "Happiness," a different kind of tale. Very different. There was only 1 theatre in the entire city of Houston that decided to pick up this Art House "Hit." I enjoyed this film very much, Laura Flynn Boyle had a cute part in it, as well as SNL's Molly Shannon. The main character Jane Adams (You've Got Mail, I Love Trouble) basically has a relationship problem, her sister's husband happens to be a pedophile, and it gets more warped as the movie proceeds. The ending was terrific, it has to be my favorite ending to a movie so far. I don't wanna spoil it, but everyone should go out and see this strange, sad movie.Movie Review: Not Human Unless You See This
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first saw this movie I was in my friend Pat's room and I was in utter awe. My brain escaped my skull and looked at me. We stared at each other and both mutterd " What the ...!"To make a long story short this movie is seriously rad! Peep It! I said PEEP IT!! Fo' knowledge. This flick enlisted the help of some hard hitten' actors-Ben Gazzarra, John Lovitz, the Mom from Requiem For a Dream, the fat chick and hot chick from The Practice, so-on-and-so-forth. I could relate to the Psychiatrist and his obsessions. I saw this movie and I was like. " you know man, We all have our crosses to bare."
Please do your five senses a favor and listen to Charles Manson's Love and Terror Cult, then watch Happiness, then kill yourself.