Rubber: Blu-Ray: Magnolia Home Entertainment
Review by JAM
No Reason.
From the beginning of Rubber from Magnolia Entertainment, this is the central focus that the actors and director convey. Every movie has some part with no reason, so why not make a movie in its entirety with no reason. And it truly accomplishes that feeling.
From the start it is a movie within a movie, a spectacle of events watched by spectators in the guise of a drive thru movie of sorts. A group of people standing in the desert with binoculars, watching the drama unfold as a deadly serial killer of a tire wreaks havoc on a small dusty town, possibly in pursuit of a raven haired beauty. And yes, that sentence seems weird for me to write as well. Watching the tire slowly kill his way through inanimate to smaller living mammals and then all the way to the townspeople makes for an odd movie, yet an interesting premise until everything unravels into a spectacle versus spectators in a tree falling in a forest type of manner. If the spectators are poisoned and killed, does a movie truly have to continue or can the actors go their separate ways? These are the questions that this movie poses as real life and studio life intersect, as spectators dictate and management attempts control.
JAMS Ink on Rubber
This was an odd movie. While preparing to watch, horror and oddball antics were what I expected. I mean, a rolling serial killer tire? Could be cool…
Then I started the film and got an existential look into the role of spectator to film, the role of actor providing for the viewer only or for the craft, and finally a serial killer tire reincarnated into a tricycle. It feels like the movie was trying so hard to make a statement, but it gets lost in the mix of the moment with a virtual potpourri of ingredients added in as we go along. A police lieutenant who breaks the fourth wall and also poisons those who watch him, a studio audience with binoculars taking in the craziness of the trek of a tyrannical tire, a female French traveler thrown in just for eye candy, all add up to a crazy little adventure that has its moments in the sun.
For such an odd little adventure, they chose to make the pictorial aspects of it beautiful. The Blu-ray clarity and color is amazing in the painted desert that our rubber friend lives in and all the gruesome blood and guts is fun to watch in high definition even if it leans far to the campy side.
EXTRAS
The extras included really do not seem to contribute that much to the overall experience of the movie.
Rubber Blu-ray Disc Features:
• Interview with Director Quentin Dupieux – it has got insight if you really want insight into this movie, but it is a little too avant garde for me. Maybe we just do not share the same wavelength.
• Interview with Stephen Spinella – the oddball Lieutenant Chad of the movie shares a bit about the script and the filming itself.
• Interview with Jack Plotnick – the accountant shares his insights, his love for Dupieux’s style and methods. He is enthusiastic at least.
• Interview with Roxane Mesquida – our French female obsession for the psychotic tire itself, she is at least an interesting interview.
• Teaser Camera Tests – little bit of a look at filming in the desert and how to make the look.
Rubber is a movie that will appeal to some and will make others go “What?” So take a look if you want something out of the norm when it comes out on June 7, 2011 from Magnolia Home Entertainment.
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