Some night last week this movie came on one of the movie channels. A young lady named Marianna Palka starred and wrote it and directed it. She’s this reclusive girl who rents softcore pornography from the guy at the video store, and he decides he loves her, and she allows him to hang around while she watches her porn, but not if he talks… it’s awesome.
I had never heard of it, and there seems to be very little fanfare about it. It is one of the weirdest, sweetest, most human movies I’ve ever seen. I’d convinced myself by the end that Marianna Palka is a supergenius; an emotional hyperentity capable of converting oxygen into pure fucking effusive joyful weirdness. It seems like there are a few out there who agree with me, and as many or more people who really hated it and gave the kind of reaction that, honestly, I’d expect from myself if I hadn’t seen it yet.
Anyway, film is not one of the very few things about which I trust my own opinion, so I’m trying to work out exactly what’s the deal with this bizarre little thing. I pretty much never have this kind of reaction to a film, and certainly not to boy-meets-girl kind of stuff. Has anybody seen it? Was anyone, I don’t know, unexpectedly touched by the weirdness? Is it the greatest piece of artistic achievement in the history of the cosmos?