| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Blind Leading the Blind
A semi-honest and amusing, but ultimately banal, expose of the emptiness of White culture and the inability of its adherents to find love in such a culture.
The characters here are not looking for the love they claim resides in others, but for approval and valorization. The loneliness of the characters is unexamined as if this White norm were, in fact, normal.
Looking for mirrors in ones relationships with others leads to the blind-leading-the-blind and constant existential daydreaming over inconsequential evasions of reality. Lonely people are concerned only to share their loneliness with others not their full humanity since the latter is what they lack.
The characters here live in a bubble of self-involvement which makes it obvious from the outset that the movie has nowhere to go, dramatically. No other culture is used as a comparator nor is there any explanation as to why Whites are as emotionally-empty as this. A great pity since the actors are excellent and enable us to laugh at their character’s inanities and absurdities despite their not being fully-rounded enough to be worthy of our empathy.
Talking directly to camera gives the impression that the characters possess some kind of self-understanding but, in reality, their monologues are are as narcissistic as they are - as if talking about being lonely was somehow a solution to it. In the end, the search for someone to admire, respect and love can become a form of self-worship when unaccompanied by a love to share - as here.
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