Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot. My twitchin' muscles tease my flippant thoughts. I never really dreamed of heaven much until we put him in the ground, but it's all I'm doing now - listening for patterns in the sound of an endless static sea. ~ Conor Oberst
April 07, 2005
Waiting for Guffman - 7
This is a hilarious film from Christopher Guest (This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind). Like these other films, Waiting for Guffman is a comedy only because the characters take themselves so seriously. All of Guest's films are shot in a documentary type style, while remaining fictional stories. All of his films are believable, you have met some of these people in real life, you may in fact be one of these people, which can lead to tow responses: become really self conscious, or laugh with others about your own idiosyncrasies and foibles. At times these films seem over written, to forced, but if these films were any less strange they would be less believable.
All of his films are actually ad libbed, the actors working around a very loose plot idea. This is Spinal Tap was actually directed and created by Rob Reiner, but Guest liked it so much that he continued the style.
ReplyDeleteGreat review! I think it's a touching film in some ways, too.