2002

February 28, 2003
San Jose Cinequest
USA
English
101 minutes

Anarchy Is Coming--The Anarchist Cookbook

Notes:...used every modern camera trick in the book (video, stop motion, talking to camera, etc.) to tell story of a group of young anarchists who live outside of Dallas...they squat in an old house, believe in sharing everything and everybody...it's a comedy but with some serious elements...Devon Gummersal of Brian Krakow fame is the lead and he tells us in voiceover how great it is being an anarchist...there is equality and freedom, but eventually jealousy will rear its head...the leader is an ex-hippie who is "way beyond married" to his much younger girlfriend, his best friend is a dreadlocked-white-guy who can barely add...there is a sexy man-hater and a DJ who encourages customers in his record shop to shoplift because "music belongs to the people"...the first half of the film is sort of "look how much fun having no rules can be"...everything changes with the arrival of J. Black who wants to kick up their actions a notch...He wants actions, not ideology...the performances were all good and it was funny...one scene of a bloody foot was one bloody scene too many...