2008
Rated: Unrated
Genre: Short Drama
Directed By:
Running Time: 39 Minutes
Review by: Felix Vasquez Jr.
Review Date: 11/23/08
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HOLE IN THE GROUND

 

So my eyes hurt, my ass hurts, and all things considering my brain hurts from having to sit through a film that’s blurbed as being a combination of Jack Ass and Stanley Kubrick. Apparently that was from a kinder news source, but at risk of being a complete dick, “Hole in the Ground” is a flinging pile with tedium, monotony, boredom always a top priority when setting the stage to introduce broadly written characters and moments of silence that bear no sense of Jack ass at any point.

I’m often very easy on bad indies, but director Kenta McGrath who tries hard to imitate the long drawn silent moments from Gus Van Sant’s films and just flat out fails. Why do we have to see a crippled man being taunted behind by the camera man within the camera man? Why did we need to see the experience in the tech shop? I mean, is it mumblecore or something that reaches for completely taking those formulas and ripping them apart for the sake of just being new?  

All I see are the horrid scenes from “Gerry,” a film that relied on aimlessness and there’s never any material presented that convinces me there’s a point to all of this hogwash. It’s a young man walking around with a camera for forty minutes. There’s artistic merit and validity to this why? What am I not getting here? I know: my forty minutes back. I wish, I really wish folks with camcorders and equipment would stop and ask if they have the balls to tell a good story because the screenplay here is a clusterfuck of ideas and pretensions that make it one of the truly tedious experiences I’ve had in a while.

Originality hardly ever go hand in hand with quality. Almost like a Larry Clark film, “Hole in the Grounds” presumes to have a point amidst all the brutality, violence, and random stupidity, and like the aforementioned’s films, I’m simply not convinced it’s anything other than an excuse to veil crud with the tag word “art."

 

 

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