Humpday

This is my first movie review post on this blog. I've written a handful of short reviews on Flixster but stopped using that Facebook application as of late because of its laggy malicious nature. I feel dirty using many of Facebook's applications and this one is no exception.

Humpday is a film written and directed by Lynn Shelton, who brought us such great hits as What the Funny and My Effortless Brilliance. Never heard of these films? Me either.

The story begins with square friend going to sleep with his wife when crazy old college friend comes banging on the door at 2 A.M. Crazy friend sleeps over and square friend is excited to see him but concerned about his square life style and how it will affect their friendship.

Cut to: They decide to make a gay porno, square friend proving that he's edgy and crazy friend proving that he's as edgy as people think he is. Neither will back down because men are irrationally competitive.

The one thing Lynn Shelton wants us to take from this film is that heterosexual men are incapable of sexual experimentation. We're scared of dildos never mind gay sex.

Before seeing this film I listened to a Podcast of her talking about this film and the interviewer asked something along the lines of, "Who do you think you this movie is made for?" Her response went something like, "Well, It's made for Straight Men but sadly I don't think many will be seeing it."

This I find to be extremely presumptuous. I went into watching this film in support of a local Seattle Indie filmmaker making her films with moderate success. After watching and digesting I've deduced that she's out of line in how she made her male characters look like complete buffoons because they're afraid of dildos, and sexually trapped in a box(pun intended). If a similar film was made by a man with female leads instead of male leads, she would most likely be the first in line to criticize a man appropriating a woman's voice and sexual nature.

Lynn Shelton, you aren't as hip or as progressive as you may think, no matter how many hookahs you smoke on camera.

I'm proud of myself because I got the embedded video to start where I wanted it to support my point, which is her blindly generalizing about men. I'm gonna make a film and talk about how women act crazy on their periods. See how that goes over.




Fuck you very much Lynn Shelton. You got a crazy look coming your way if I see you on the streets of 206.