Ok - so there's three narratives and the protagonist in each story is actually "writing" one of the other stories. So there's a circle of stories. If this was the weirdest thing about the film then maybe it would all have worked. Unfortunately each of the three stories has about the zaniest plot you've ever come across.
Two of the narratives especially feature some really nuts plot about sex and body image. Gael Garcia plays a promiscuous film director who needs to sleep with the female producer in order to keep his job, but suddenly with no explanation his penis shrinks to a useless size. He buys an expensive prosthetic but incredibly it catches fire when he's in the water. In what feels like the secondary narrative a female gets huge breast implants but almost immediately wants them removed. In order to get money to reverse the operation she smuggles drugs inside a sex doll.
Ok so I have many problems with this movie. Firstly, we really don't see these characters writing very much. It's hard to believe they have time to create these extra narratives when their own life is so full-on. We also don't see these characters working enough on their art.
Secondly, the narratives are really too different. If these people are writing each other's stories you would imagine they would have a cathartic component. However they seem to be just writing zany nonsense. I found it particularly strange that the sex-doll woman invents a promiscuous film director and describes him as her "perfect man" (and then subsequently shrinks his penis). Why would she invent such a bizarre story? What's her motivation?
Also the frequent and drastic tonal shifts in the stories make them hard to hold onto. A case in point is when the sex-doll worker guy suddenly announces he has gang connections and is now pulling a massive drug deal out of thin air. What the heck? Where did this come from? Who is he buying from and selling to?
Anyway if you need some weirdness you've come to the right place.
Two of the narratives especially feature some really nuts plot about sex and body image. Gael Garcia plays a promiscuous film director who needs to sleep with the female producer in order to keep his job, but suddenly with no explanation his penis shrinks to a useless size. He buys an expensive prosthetic but incredibly it catches fire when he's in the water. In what feels like the secondary narrative a female gets huge breast implants but almost immediately wants them removed. In order to get money to reverse the operation she smuggles drugs inside a sex doll.
Ok so I have many problems with this movie. Firstly, we really don't see these characters writing very much. It's hard to believe they have time to create these extra narratives when their own life is so full-on. We also don't see these characters working enough on their art.
Secondly, the narratives are really too different. If these people are writing each other's stories you would imagine they would have a cathartic component. However they seem to be just writing zany nonsense. I found it particularly strange that the sex-doll woman invents a promiscuous film director and describes him as her "perfect man" (and then subsequently shrinks his penis). Why would she invent such a bizarre story? What's her motivation?
Also the frequent and drastic tonal shifts in the stories make them hard to hold onto. A case in point is when the sex-doll worker guy suddenly announces he has gang connections and is now pulling a massive drug deal out of thin air. What the heck? Where did this come from? Who is he buying from and selling to?
Anyway if you need some weirdness you've come to the right place.