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#343 - That Todd Solondz is Pretty Effed Up, Right?

The Important Cinema Club

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The Importance of Humor in Happiness

Happiness is a movie about a lot of people who are very you know uncomfortable in a world that's telling them to be comfortable. And also he trusts you to be like you can handle this being treated in not the most solemn way. It'll be funny also you can laugh at this. But that's like a fine line right? He gets accused a lot especially in his later films of being just like an edgelord. Like can you believe that I'm doing this? Well they laughter starts to sour with the dill and baker character That scene where he's drugging the boy is very funny and very suspenseful. Then as the movie goes along it stops being funny until that

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