Talk about multiverses. In a parallel cosmos that is apparently just around the corner from you right now, a bunch of boys — and grown men — are living a life so different from yours th…
, who were among the producers to jump on Kline’s directorial debut. It may be set in the suburbs rather than among the Safdies’ beloved urban grifters, but it’s got real grit. When Robert leaves the parental home to rent a room in a filthy basement flat, you can just about smell the mouse dirt.
The flat belongs — possibly — to Barry, a sticky man with a combover and a passion for 1940s B-movies who welcomes him in. He sleeps on the floor next to the bed occupied by Stephen, also “a fan of the funnies,” as he puts it. “Dick Tracy, Blondie, Dennis the Evil Menace with his slingshot!,” he sings out from his reclining position on Barry’s bed. All this is played for comedy, albeit of the saddest kind.
At least Robert is presentable. After he is charged with breaking and entering — don’t ask — the motherly duty lawyer who represents him and who presumably sees very few presentable people, gives him a job in her office. Here he meets repeat defendant Wallace , whose list of assault convictions doesn’t interest Robert half so much as the fact he used to work as a color separator on comics. Convinced he is a genius, Robert befriends him, even asking him home for Christmas.
It is obvious that puffing, spluttering, paranoid Wallace is crazy and probably crazy violent. It is also obvious — partly because he keeps saying so — that he is not an artist. The fact that Robert attaches himself to him like a limpet is clearly intended as high comic hyperbole, but it doesn’t work that way: all it means is that Kline has saddled himself with a storyline that nobody could believe for a second.
Robert’s father tells him he is a spoilt brat. Fair enough, but he’s not a psychotically delusional brat. Would he really beat a man up at Wallace’s behest, let him steal his car, cover for him when he breaks his parents’ windows in the hope of learning more about cross-hatching? How unpleasant this all is, from beginning to end, without being actually funny. This film will find its constituency, for sure. It is made well and with conviction. I’m assured it’s destined to become a cult favorite.
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