1993, Dir. Rolf De Heer. DVD: Blue Underground
Review by Liam Spengler
Billy
Drago/Hugo Weaving hybrid Nicholas Hope is Bubby; a
grinning man-child, who after a life-time of beatings
and incest decides to escape from his mother’s hovel sex prison. Forest
Gump sat on a bench and ate chocolate, I Am Sam cried and shat his
pants, Bubby wraps cats in cellophane and patronises fat women. De
Heer's masterful black comedy traverses between the squalid and
ethereal, coming across like The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser directed by David Lynch...even if the culmination is closer to Nick Cave: Behind the Music.
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