"Stupid cow."When some years ago I was reading this statement, I thought this is the most offensive and mean description of a woman what somebody can say. Above the mental and physical annihilation there is one more thing: the 'dot' at the end of the statement. Not an exclamation mark, but a dot. This laconic, simple voice was the reason why I started to read Herman Brusselmans. Without any expressed emotion, only hurting people.
The story of Koen Mortier's film is quite Brusselmans-like (actually the first film from his novels): We have a famous cynical author, Dries (Brusselmans' alter ego), who teams up with three handicapped guys to form a punk-rock band for only one gig. There is a stiff arm gay one playing the bass (you really don't want to know how his arm injured..), an aggressive-brutal women torturer on a guitar and at the mic, and there is Ivan, a deaf wannabe rockstar (guitar too). Dries – without any serious problems – needs to play on a drum. He can't play on it, so this will be his disability. Their name is The Feminists. Perfect.
"Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid, happier than you and me" – says their big hit, and you receives what you need. It is hard to find less political correct movie than the Ex Drummer. And above all the aggression and hatred there is Brusselmans' sceptic, cynical, emotionless voice which kills all your remained social sympathy towards these retards. Because Dries joins the group not out of fun (that would be mean already), but only because of his new book. The reason to participate in the band grounds only on sociological reason. An emotionless research.
Mortier's film follows Brusselmans' statements but replaces the dots to exclamation marks. The movie is aggressive, explicitly brutal – sometimes without any reason or motivation. Except this I can assure all the Brusselmans fans that they will find what they are searching for. Even the "stupid cow"-like statements. According to the director's exaggerated enthusiasm (. = !), this description goes to denominate not a woman in a library (De man die werk vond, 1985) but a character's own mother...
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The story of Koen Mortier's film is quite Brusselmans-like (actually the first film from his novels): We have a famous cynical author, Dries (Brusselmans' alter ego), who teams up with three handicapped guys to form a punk-rock band for only one gig. There is a stiff arm gay one playing the bass (you really don't want to know how his arm injured..), an aggressive-brutal women torturer on a guitar and at the mic, and there is Ivan, a deaf wannabe rockstar (guitar too). Dries – without any serious problems – needs to play on a drum. He can't play on it, so this will be his disability. Their name is The Feminists. Perfect.
"Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid, happier than you and me" – says their big hit, and you receives what you need. It is hard to find less political correct movie than the Ex Drummer. And above all the aggression and hatred there is Brusselmans' sceptic, cynical, emotionless voice which kills all your remained social sympathy towards these retards. Because Dries joins the group not out of fun (that would be mean already), but only because of his new book. The reason to participate in the band grounds only on sociological reason. An emotionless research.
Mortier's film follows Brusselmans' statements but replaces the dots to exclamation marks. The movie is aggressive, explicitly brutal – sometimes without any reason or motivation. Except this I can assure all the Brusselmans fans that they will find what they are searching for. Even the "stupid cow"-like statements. According to the director's exaggerated enthusiasm (. = !), this description goes to denominate not a woman in a library (De man die werk vond, 1985) but a character's own mother...
7/10
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