The Dirties (2013)

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   DanyeWest

   Great Flick and a step forward for indie films 10 years 10 months ago
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   kayjay027

   Found this chilling, theatrical, and poignant in all the right ways of the words. 9 years 12 months ago
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   Siskoid

   There's an obvious trigger warning that comes with Matt Johnson's The Dirties - two teenagers make a movie filled with gun violence for film class, and one of them becomes obsessed with staging an actual school shooting. It's an off-putting topic to lampoon in a found footage/mockumentary format (or any format), but if anyone had to do it, I'm glad it was Johnson. He seems to specialize in half-improvised, "let's keep the corpsing in it", goofball vérité that turns serious and making them work. The Dirties basically throws all the theories about why these things happen (specifically: Columbine) without really choosing one. The high school bullies are relentless, but take a second seat to the Matt character's love of movies and disassociative perspective of always acting like he's in one... while being filmed, so he's not half wrong. A film maker making an indictment of film (that perennial straw man when it comes to corrupting youth)?! Or a send-up of the theory? Surely, the latter, but what a weird tone to strike. Ultimately, it's about a bromance and how the end of high school signals various parting of the ways, but it gets dark. Film nerds will love the end credits. 1 year 2 months ago

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