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"Join us for an in-depth discussion of the penetrating issues facing society today. Issues like abortion, terrorism, crime, poverty, social reform, quantum teleportation, teen horniness and war."
This is one weird film. It's 131 minutes of bizarreness with a WTF ending. It's somewhat reminiscent of Oliver Stone's 1990's miniseries 'Wild Palms', in that it doesn't make any real sense, yet it's enjoyable in all its utter weirdness.
The film opens with a mushroom cloud and then shows us a post WW3 USA where a massive spy network named USIDent monitors every citizen 24/7. A famous actor named Boxer (Dwayne Johnson) is suffering from amnesia and shacking up with porn star Krysta (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who has her own topical discussion chat reality show. Meanwhile the state is powered by alternative fuel source Fluid Karma which may have ripped a hole in the fabric of reality. Also a group of neo-Marxists are trying to ram through Proposition 69 which will end USIDent. Meanwhile Ronald (Sean William Scott) is pretending to be his twin brother who is a member of an Urban Pacification Unit. And everything is narrated by Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake) who explains that this is the way the world ends.
There is bizarre comedy, murder, riots, urban upheaval, death, time travel, prophecy, a musical number, a dance routine and the end of the world. The cast including Curtis Armstrong, Christopher Lambert, John Larroquette, Bai Ling, Jon Lovitz, Miranda Richardson, Zelda Rubinstein, Wallace Shawn and Mandy Moore run around not looking as if they know exactly what they're doing but sure it is all meaningful and arty.
"How do you sleep at night?"
"Very well, thank you very much. That is until I hear screams from next door because USIDent is raiding my neighbours house."
It's very, very, very weird but it is enjoyable. It just doesn't make a lick of sense.
P-Con VI March 27th/28th/29th 2009
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