Under the Radar DVD of the Week: 'This Is Not a Movie'
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“This Is Not a Movie”
If you ever feel overwhelmed by the glut of music, TV, movies, videos, social media, advertising and assorted other electronic detritus that seem to dominate our lives, then Mexican filmmaker Olallo Rubio’s dystopian mélange “This Is Not a Movie” (due out on DVD Tuesday) will most likely send you over the edge.
Rubio, a well-known Mexican radio personality whose popular program focuses on music, social issues and American pop culture, proves to be a trickster when it comes to moviemaking. This, his second film, is shot in English and set in the garish, neon environs of Los Vegas, where reality, horror, fantasy and hallucination mingle freely.
The story is a hodgepodge of earnest but pessimistic musings about the nature of reality and the worth of mankind. With the apocalypse on the horizon, a wayward pilgrim named Pete (Edward Furlong of “American History X”) locks himself in a Vegas hotel room and tries to sort out the meaning of things through a buzzing onslaught of film, TV, disinformation, drugs, hallucinations and propaganda.
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