Reality
Reality
NR | 01 May 2015 (USA)
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A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.

Reviews
Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.
ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Lee Eisenberg I first learned of Quentin Dupieux when I saw his 2010 absurdist black comedy "Rubber" (about a tire on a killing spree). Now comes "Réalité" ("Reality" in English), about a director who has to find the ideal groan of pain for a proposed movie. At least that's the main plot. Throughout the movie, reality, fiction and dreams keep overlapping so that you're not sure just what is real. David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" is probably the only other movie that messes with your mind this much.This movie won't be for everyone. You have to be willing to accept the repeated shift from apparent reality to fiction, often taking place simultaneously. Assuming that you enjoy a movie that deliberately confuses you, you'll like this one. It's not like anything that you've ever seen.PS: Quentin Dupieux is an electronic musician who goes by Mr. Oizo (a corruption of the French word for bird).
atmadarkwolf I really can't be sure what this movie/film is trying to be. It is classified as 'comedy' but I didn't notice a single funny part. (Disclaimer, got 30min in before I walked out) - All the characters are unlikable (as in NOT liked not 'can't decide'), Not sure what each scene was trying to put across, and I couldn't tell how any of them were connected (beyond the 'filmed' part of the girl sleeping) and the jumping back and forth between languages again sort of tossed me.I do get that a lot of people give films by 'outside Hollywood' high ratings simply because its a new / different source, but when a movie is bad that you join the other 20+ people who walked out midway simply because the movie was unlikable (And I can honestly say I always try to give everything a chance, and try to see a reason to 'enjoy' something, but this was a stinker, no other way to describe it, almost like it needed a manual explaining what it was about before u sit down to watch it) So forgive me, I'm not yuppie enough to 'enjoy' this. Was a solid stinker. (At least the first 30min was, maybe it got super awesome and insightful beyond that)
pietjepuk93 This is an incredibly odd film that basically occupies itself with contradicting everything you might expect. From the narrative structure of the film itself, down to the smallest details. A little girl's name is Reality yet she experiences things that can't possibly happen like seeing a videotape come out of a boar's stomach or her mother reading her a bedtime story that exactly recounts what happened to her that day. A cooking show host wears a rat costume (hygiene?), a french speaking producer has an American name (Bob Marshall), a starting director pitches the worst idea for a movie ever and says it took him four years to come up with it and the producer likes it but focuses on a very small detail. The movie is build on these types of contradictions, leading to funny scenes (the smoking scene is hilarious), but often to just plain absurdity.Because the narrative structure of the movie itself is contradictory to what you as a viewer expect from a movie the whole thing stays enjoyable, literally anything can happen. In the end everything sort of works out and the story lines are tied in with each other in a way that makes sense. Not 'real' sense, but within the movie's logic (or lack thereof). I agree with another reviewer that one can't really compare this movie to anything else (maybe Dupieux earlier film Wrong), which makes grading it a tad difficult. On the whole I found it an incredibly amusing experience, though I can understand that other people might not. But if you are open minded about movies...Step into the world of Realité, in which secretaries are creepy, you can go into work and discover that you are already there and if you decline a cigarette because you don't smoke, you will get one forced on you.
Marry Kingsley Dupieux lines up again into a circular, nearly closed form of movie-making, that allows him to break out into freedom.This movie is an awake an awake an awake of 'gasp!', by being very natural with the strangeness of discontinuity of interwoven realities.If You like the vortex-character of Lynch-movies, but with the lighter atmosphere of Michel Gondry (Sience of Sleep),- in other words if You are interested in this direction of mind-resetting,check 'Rubber' , 'Wrong' and 'Réalité' out.This is definitely fresh material to feed Your deconstructing mind.
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