Hello this is Seth Welling and here’s the
review you’ve all been waiting for.
Back last week when Jane was here, we went
to see The Death of Stalin but we both fell
asleep.
Well I mostly fell asleep more than she did,
oddly enough because she was up for many more
hours having driven 17 hours to see me.
So we didn’t have enough material to actually
review the film like we had planned.
But I read some other reviews so I’m going
to cobble a review together.
Here’s a picture of me sleeping in the theater.
and probably a picture of Janel in the photo
of me sleeping.
You can barely see me.
And here we go.
The Death of Stalin was about the Death of
Stalin.
It was a fictionalized movie.
It was a satirical black black comedy.
And it was bought to the screen by Armando
Iannucci who was responsible for VEEP starring
Julia Louis-Dreyfus IN VEEP the comedy is
kind of cruel and and it makes fun of people.
But in The Death of Stalin, it was really
making fun of the Communists like one of the
jokes that was in the trailer was the guy
who said: they’re going to vote for me,
But you locked them up.
But now I’m setting them free.
Something like that, So all the jokes were
pointed at the Communists.
That made it for a semi-gentler movie.
but it still poked fun at the Communist party
of that period of time.
And I think what Iannucci is saying is he’s
going after the whole Russia investigation
whether you believe it or not, from a different
angle, pointing out how dunderheaded the Communists
were after the Death of Stalin, And maybe
pointing out all of our follies for not doing
something really political about the 2016
election.
I think that’s where we’re going to be
with this movie.
It was funny, obviously, not funny enough
to keep me awake.
But it was artsy.
So if you’re looking for the Hangover, this
ain’t it.
It’s more foreign even though it has people
like Kevin Klein and Jeffery Tambor and Steve
Buscemi in it.
It’s still very foreign and maybe you wouldn’t
like that.
But my girlfriend assured me that it was very
very funny, even though I was sawing logs
during it.
I think if you like foreign films or like
Woody Allen films like Love and Death, you
might like this film Death of Stalin.
I don’t think kids would get it.
I think it’s appropriate.
I don’t think there’s any real bloody
massacre stuff just humor, pythonesque, like
Monty Python.
It’s got Michael Palin in it, So kinda like
that.
You should see it if you like that kind of
comedy.
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