"Life During Wartime," Todd Solondz, 2003 - Sequel to his exceedingly well-done black comedy, Happiness, except filmed with a completely different cast. Oddly enough, the guy playing a character previously performed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman is a tall black guy. Easily as funny as the former but a little more stylish in visual approach, but still uneasy and nauseous like Scorsese's "The King Of Comedy." Basically a story about people trying to sustain happiness and stave off paranoia and such after coming out of really dysfunctional periods in their lives. Plus, the pedophile father from Happiness tracks down his now-college-aged son for another really good father-son heart-to-heart. "Do you like women? I mean, really like women? Do you ever fantasize...about approaching them, fucking them, raping them?" Some of the better and funnier dialogue in any movie I've seen. I'd probably even buy it, when I track down another copy of Happiness and the uncensored DVD version of Storytelling. Also, more movies should take note that sex scenes between unattractive people are easier to watch than Hollywood "softcore porn" using unrealistic-looking actors.
Anybody see the Lovelace biopic with Amanda Seyfried? "You won't like it, sugar!"
