That's kind of what this movie feels like. Jeff Goldblum playing this theatre clown who goes through the absolute humiliation of being degraded down to a human dog during his imprisonment in a concentration camp.
And if you can guess by that description the movie is kind of odd. Not as long as I thought it would get as the film doesn't go completely nuts in any real direction.
Oh you have characters harassing each other and you've got the disgusting threat of extermination. But as I mentioned above when you have movies like 'Schindler's List' that exists it's pretty hard to then try and top that.
I think what baffles me most of all isn't the film itself but the response to it.
This movies kind of bombed on the internet.
It has really low scores and a bunch of people claiming that it wasn't ''funny'' enough.
I don't know why people are complaining about that. I never got the impression that this was supposed to be a comedic film.
Or that you were ever supposed to find anything it is funny. If anything it's just kind of depressing when it's not being slightly confusing with have some of the people act.
Now if somebody was complaining about Jeff goldblum's kind of off-putting attempt at a German accent that I could understand.
Jeff Goldblum has a very specific voice and he just really can't sound like anything else.
Might be made all the more worst given that Goldblum has this tendency to fall back on his Jurassic Park voice in certain roles.
He does try to fight that a little bit here but it's still not perfect.
You also slightly have that problem with Willem Dafoe.
He too has a very unique accent but it doesn't seem to come off quite as bad.
Probably because Willem Dafoe being a general creep on screen is a real strength of his.
I can also understand a large group of the Jewish Community being upset about the movie. A bunch of non Jewish people playing the roles of victims in one of the most horrific events in modern human history. And then producing a film that doesn't truly connect with those events.
O they try to to a degree but it always feels like they're one step away from actually acknowledging the true horrors of what happened.
I feel like this film had the ability to really grasp onto some unique stories If Only They were committed. There's a non relationship between Jeff goldblum's character and this weird psychiatric nurse who has the hots for him.
I think there could have been a weird dramatic tension between them that would have made for a good film.
We're just having a large part of the movie dedicated between Jeff Goldblum's character in the kid who thought he was a literal dog. So that matter there's about 10 different stories I could have focused on where was just Jeff Goldblum reacting with other people. But instead they kind of make him react with everybody and we see little glimpses of all of it.
So instead of getting one or two really coherent and filled out stories we get this hodge-podge of multiple experiences.
Honestly I didn't think it was all that bad film has little glimmers of something better, but overall it just kind of fall short of what is attempting to do.
By no means do I think it's bad it's just kind of unremarkable in a way.
I do wonder how much more this movie would have benefited from having low-key actors.
Think about it.
How many other films like this exists that would be ripped apart if it is mainstream but because it's done by some independent filmmaker with actors you've never heard of it, all of a sudden becomes a pass or it's considered some great work of artistic endeavour.
Some of the camera movement in this film was kind of bad. They had a very TV feel to it. There's these oddshots were they kind of zoom in on Jeff Goldblum and he's reacting to something and it's done the same way as he'd seen an episode of The Office.
It's the little things like that that just kind of pull you out of a movie like this.
You can't have a big dramatic scene where you're about to have people literally sent to their death and then start using a bunch of weird camera zoom effects that look like they belong in some cheesy Mexicans shootout film of the 1950s.
Overall the movie is okay.
The whole thing has a slight disconnect to it and the tone difference between certain scenes just seems a bit off-putting.
There are some really individual moments that are incredibly captivating and I just wish the movie would commit the one of the story angles it wants to set up.
There are some great ideas in the film but it just falls short that little bit I've really achieving but I think it's set out to do.
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