What did you get out of watching this film?
I just watched this movie on IFC (Independent Film Channel) on American Cable Television.
I missed the first fifteen minutes but it was still easy to follow what was going on.
After a series of sometimes funny and sometimes surprising set-ups of this group of people playing tricks on different people and/or breaking social norms to get reactions there is a sudden shift. The movie changes from it's "gag reel" to attempting to now make the audience it's victim. The movie attempts to shock the audience with an extended group sex scene. Instead of showing other people being shocked or offended--the "joke" is now on you--By showing what is normally taboo behavior (group sex) the audience can now feel what the bystanders in this film must have felt (shock/shame/confusion/concern).
Did this film teach you anything? Did it make you think about your prejudices against the mentally handicapped? Did it make you think about how society just wants to hide people like this? Did it make you judge those who were doing this? Did you get angry that society judges those who are deemed "different" and unacceptable? Were you angry with the group for harassing good people? Who did you villify in this film? Did this film cause you to not only question your beliefs but question your reactions to those being portrayed?
Think about this film--it's a film that was made to make you think about what everyone considers "normal" and what society will accept and on what terms it will accept people who are different from everyone else.
An interesting thing can happen when watching this film: you can begin to really invest in the story line of who the group participants are. You try to understand more deeply their reasons for doing this--you begin to try to empathize and analyze what would make them do this? What are their motives? What are they getting out of it? What is the point of the film?
The point of this film is to make you think about your own prejudices being presented in this movie.
[b]Somebody's gotta be the outside the thinker boxes![b]