Those are the societies that prosper, and we are becoming a third-rate country because there are not enough voices heard. The healthiest society is a society with a mixture of voices. Any independent vision that is permitted to the public, God bless them.
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When I ask if he's seen The Room, a movie touted as the “best worst movie ever made,” which has been selling out at recent screenings and is the source material for the award-winning The Disaster Artist, he reflects, “God bless Tommy Wiseau. Kaufman concedes that his recent movies receive very little attention in the major newspapers and end up with poor box office attendance. That artistic choice and social commentary comes at a high price, since the general moviegoing public is typically put off by anything not given a mainstream stamp of approval. Its outrageous imagery brings to light the absurdity we're currently up against as a society dealing with all sorts of turmoil. 2 (“ R2V2” from this point on) also manages to serve as a sort of exorcistic prism. At this particular juncture in time, Kaufman's latest, Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High, Vol. Taking the “ripped straight from today's headlines” approach, a Troma film, with its wall-to-wall hyper-surrealism, tends to skewer whatever's happening in society at the moment.
Every movie we have made has the basic theme that there is the town of Tromaville and that its people are very capable of organizing their own existence, their own livelihood, but they are victimized by a conspiracy of elected officials.” When I bring up this parallel to Kaufman during a recent FaceTime chat, he chuckles, “Good point.
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So it's not hard to imagine that at some point we slipped through a crack in the multiverse and ended up in a mashup of a Douglas Adams science fiction comedy and Tromaville. We live in a world where a genius billionaire sends into space a roadster with an astronaut dummy listening to David Bowie and a fake billionaire turns what was arguably the most commanding job in the world into a grotesque and toxic farce. If at any time in history it could be said that as a nation our collective unconscious actualized a Troma movie directed by Lloyd Kaufman, that time is now.