My first SIFF experience

About a month ago, my little brother Jeremy, e-mailed me and dad. He said that one of his professors told him about this moving coming out with Zach Galifianakis in it, and Judy Greer. When you go to the homepage and see what you see, you know it can only go one of two ways. Then Jerm says that the brothers who made the movie (wrote and directed) are his nephews. AND, that it was going to premier at the Seattle International Film Festival over Father's Day weekend when they were up. PERFECT.

So, Jeremy scored us 4 tickets to the premier (Dad, me, Jeremy & Cassie) and off to Capitol Hill and a really cool theater we went! The movie was...well....

The premise of the movie is that George Washington Winsterhamerman lives in what turns out to be Snoqualmie, and works for a major corporation that starts each greeting by flipping each other the bird. The movie goes a little slow, and it's people start blowing up and they can't figure out why, so there's life coaches and all this stuff going on to try and stop people from blowing up. I think what I got from it, is that if you like what you're doing and you're happy, you won't blow up. If you're unsatisfied, there's nothing they can do to stop you. But it was a little slow, definitely an art film.

It was weird, and I'm not 110% sold on it. It was definitely perfect for SIFF, and my favorite part was that after the "screening" the brothers got up and asked questions, which was very cool. Especially when this girl in the audience asked a question about the philsophical meaning behind a scene, and they kind of looked at her, and then said, "we just did it because we hate hippies." Excellent, and I think it really ticked her off!

It was the most interesting film experience of my life, but right after the movie needed a drink and to debrief the movie, which truth be told, we were all feeling. I liked it, it was a neat experience, but not a movie I would ever go see myself.