In a couple or so days I’ll be posting an analysis of William Friedkin’s/Tracy Letts film, Bug, and it would be helpful (although not vital) if you viewed it beforehand. The analysis is also about the reaction to the film, not only the critics but the general public (us).
The film is from 2006 and is a boomer of a piece of predictive (or pre-emptive) programming regarding current and near-future events.
I’ve taken the time to analyze over 500 reviews of the film and was astounded at the level of doublethink/denial evidenced.
The post will be important for several reasons, is what I’m saying. So give it a watch; even if you don’t ‘get it’ (and it’s unlikely you will, based on what I’ve seen), it’ll knock your socks off.
Allan
Remember, it’s Bug, not A Bug’s Life!
Well, all I can think is if you’ve ever slummed it with White Trash broads, and I know I have, you’ll be able to relate to this film!
So far into it, the central male protagonist clearly represents one of them people who is a dreaded “conspiracy theorist”. You’ll find one in every town. Ashley Judd understands!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kefVDHXgbFs
Perhaps everyone has this link.
I would suggest folks cough up 4 bucks and watch it full screen. Seriously.
The plot of the film reminds me a lot of a story told by the main character in the novel “A scanner darkly” by PKD.
Nothing new under the sun, it seems.
So this is the one with Ashley Judd? That Bug?
Hey, my clock said it’s 5:30 am, not 12something pm. What’s with the time stamp on my post?
And I rewatched “V for Vendetta” a few days ago. Recommended.
Yes, that’s the one. I’ll do another post today and suggest that you not only watch Bug but do a little summation here in comments on what you think the film is about, what it means. A sentence, a paragraph, an essay, whatever you want. Then, based on my analysis (in a post), we’ll see if either of us got it right.
I know this, – if someone had made a movie last year, of what is happening today, anyone would scream out -> what a farfetched , exaggerated, totally unlikely, chowder brained pile of horse shit!…as they left the theatre shortly into the beginning, to try and get their hard earned ticket money back.
Retrieve what was left of their brain at the front door…
Then they would go home with a headache, and try and make up for a chunk of their life lost with a crate of whiskey & beers.
Leave it to Brett to make a comment like that before ingesting the suggested information (Bug).
Searched for the movie ‘Bug’ on Amazon Prime and Youtube and thought: ‘this can’t be the right movie, it’s literally about a bug infestation’. I guess I shouldn’t have assumed – based on the film’s title and the current state of the world – that it is referring to a virus/pandemic. The movie is about a supposed bug infestation, but apparently has many psychological/ reality-based layers to try and peel away to figure out what’s really going on. Or maybe, as proposed in a review of the movie (below link) – details are left ambiguous because “we aren’t supposed to know the truth” of what’s going on. In any case, I’m looking forward to watching it. https://filmsforweirdoswithwildheartsandsoaringsouls.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/a-complete-analysis-of-william-friedkins-bug-2006/
Thanks for the link. It was one of the few reviews I had not come across in my analysis, and it’s actually a perfect example of what I talk about in the (multi-layered) post I’m working on. Watch Bug then sum it up here or in the next post comments. Please.
You all might learn something, and depending on your ‘reviews’, me too. I’m sure as hell learning something from the research I’m doing, and the re-watching of Bug (and the reading of the play, which you can do via Kindle).
On the same theme, but much more trivially, I’ve been thinking about 2005’s V for Vendetta, in which the solution to the virus/fascist problem was to wear masks – of the Anonymous / Guy Fawkes variety.
Gee, that’s kind of an irony if you think of it that way. Wear a Mask and Fight the Power!
Thanks for the link. It was one of the few reviews I had not come across in my analysis, and it’s actually a perfect example of what I talk about in the (multi-layered) post I’m working on. Watch Bug then sum it up here or in the next post comments. Please.
You all might learn something, and depending on your ‘reviews’, me too. I’m sure as hell learning something from the research I’m doing, and the re-watching of Bug (and the reading of the play, which you can do via Kindle).