You feel as if everyone in the community is silently in on the secret and somehow complicit in directing the film noir that is your life.
Without a doubt the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
12 out of 13 found this helpful. On a positive note, the actor who played the father was quite good.
Todd Solondz wannabe short film that may or may not be a satire or melodrama or both about rape in the family.
Was this review helpful? It's brilliant, it's genius and it assured me once again that us humans are just vile monsters who don't deserve life as free as it is. Originally is something you don't see these days with movie studios appearing to only be pushing movies with existing IP's. " Was this review helpful? Before either, Aster had made several short films that would come to define his style. 3 out of 10 found this helpful. This short film is a masterpiece. All rights reserved.Important conversations are happening now. For me, this work is one that confounds me I will now explain why in great detail, in hopes that someone out there will come to understand why I feel this way about it. Was this review helpful?
5 out of 52 found this helpful. Genres: Melodrama, Psychological Drama.
But I had no idea what kind of 21st Century Pandora's box I had opened by simply typing, Later that night as I lay in bed counting and naming sheep, a trick I learned as a child, I couldn't stop wondering why people didn't get this movie. His most well-known short film is a little piece called The Strange Thing About the Johnsons. 1 out of 1 found this helpful.
It seems people are insulted by the film because he casted a black family.
As an incest and molestation survivor, I know what it's like to live with these secrets within an African American family. Personally, I think we make a terrible mistake in vilifying filmmakers, storytellers or messengers because when we do this in some strange way we simultaneously and unwillingly empower the abusers.
Lets get this out the way, the movie is very disturbing; but its very original. The Strange Thing About The Johnsons is fast becoming the independent cult shocker movie of the year. Not only were they not getting it, they seemed to be hell bent on being against it. Part of HuffPost Black Voices.
Anyway, the longer the film runs the more dramatic it becomes. So I played my unwilling role and took my systematic punishment in silence, shame and secrecy. I can still remember the sick feeling I would get when I instinctively knew someone my family had left me in the care of was going to harm or molest me. 1 out of 2 found this helpful. 1 out of 1 found this helpful.
This is the kind of early film that gets one into the big time in Hollywood, apparently. I honestly don't know what to say about this film, this subject comes off as (mostly) well handled in this short film. The viewer is kept engaged for every single second and it is impossible to peel your eyes away from what you are watching, no matter how despicable it may be. It disturbed me and made me feel uncomfortable from start to finish. But disgusted in a good way, if you know what I mean. I have read allot of different reviews about this short; most negative. And before I knew it, I felt it happening again. At the tender age of 7 my leading role as sacrificial lamb began and continued well into my teens. I love films that make me feel a variety of different emotions, and there's a scene at the very end of this film that legitimately had me laughing, crying, and yelling at the same time and I don't even know how they f*cking did it!
With absolute recall I can remember a particular evening catching a glimpse of fear affixed to my tiny face as So as people continue to submit comments like sick, disgusting, deeply traumatized, or even WOW, I believe we should first ask ourselves, "If this is how I feel as the viewer, how must it feel being the victim of incest?" Here I was child and I innately knew what lay ahead. Rated the #361 best film of 2011. Was this review helpful? Let's be real here... Short films don't really have a place in the world in terms of global mass media. Was this review helpful? this little oddity is a masterpiece of shock cinema, as well as a masterpiece of cinema in general. Not only are those reactions totally justified, as this is one of the only movies to genuinely get under my skin, but they also unfortunately overshadow a deeply brilliant film. My hat goes off to the filmmaker and all those involved for creating a truly unique and visionary piece of cinema. 42 out of 49 found this helpful. This is Aster's most genre film as it feels almost 100% a drama. Ask any 'normal person' who doesn't know who David Lynch is, or doesn't have a strong opinion on the films of Hitchcock, if they can name just ONE short film... And I'd bet a million bucks they can't. People either have an issue about content, the race of the family (Black), or both. 3 out of 5 found this helpful. This film, written and directed by Ari Aster as his American Film Institute Thesis film, has been sizzling through the internet like a Kim Kardashian sex tape.
Frankly, I was disturbed by the contents. I am not sure. It is thought provoking and I think does a good good of presenting an often uncontemplated take on the dark motifs the movie explores.
Was this review helpful? The writer and director is Ari Aster and this is one of his earliest career efforts. The family's son has been abusing the father sexually since his teenage days. 9 out of 12 found this helpful. One even goes so far as to say "the content of this project is not only disgusting, but implausible and completely ridiculous." Was this review helpful? Although I have watched it at least twice, I still don't know how to react with all this disturbing content in it. It starts right at 100 and stays there for the entire run time. Starring: Billy Mayo. "The Strange Thing" is the story about a suburban family that where the father and son share a dark secret.
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