Wednesday 26 August 2020

The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine, 2019)


 The Beach Bum is insolent, amusing, lunatic and stoned to the bone. The 2019 movie of Harmony Korine is a dive inside the character of one man, a man who can win the trophy for being one of the most charming and winning characters that we have ever seen in a film. Moondog is a poet with a beer and a joint in his hand. And that's practically the whole movie. But it is amazing and miraculous to see that the life and deeds of this character can fill five movies instead of one. Away from the conventions of the world, from boring, politically correct characters who smell of toothpaste and expensive cologne, Moondog is a miracle of creation, a modern rebel, an idol who can turn the movie upside down. The Beach Bum being the phenomenon of 2019 is a movie that really captures the essence of life, really manages to pass to the viewer the feeling that life is short and there is no room for cheap and pompous seriousness. Moondog is a character who will paint your dreams, is a character who will take you to places that you have never dreamed before. There is no doubt that this movie is meant to become a cult phenomenon. It has all those ingredients that make it a movie that will live forever in the heart of some drunk beside the pavement, or in the soul of some anonymous poet who will never know success. The Beach Bum is a movie that destroys everything that you think you know about humans, is a movie that throws dirt in our eyes, is a movie that really demolishes our neat reality. This is a film that goes together with joints and romance, it is definitely a selection for impressing a girl and also finding out if she is up for "the game". Your friends will love it and your enemies will hate you more for finding such an impeccable movie, The Beach Bum is hilarious, is unorthodox, is what every man dreams from a movie. There are no words to express the feeling that you get while watching it, but one thing is for sure that after the movie you will want to love every human being near you and after that you will want to burn your house and go out running in the streets naked. Moondog is here for us, he takes good care of us, he loves us and we are giving back to him the biggest present of all and that is nothing less than our expectations for our lives. And we know that our expectations are now in safe hands. We know that Moondog will do everything possible so we don't become conservative prudes in our life, but maintain, till the end, our fresh and rebellious character. A film that speaks the language of life and happiness.  

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