this weekend, rob rented joe swanberg's first feature entitled "kissing on the mouth." swanberg is the guy making soft porn episodics for www.nerve.com. rob loves this guy.
rob watches the movie first. he tells me that swanberg is f'ing amazing and that he's told his filmmaker buddies that they/we should all be making movies like swanberg.
so, i start watching it and there's only 4 characters in the movie: 2 males and 2 females. joe is one of the males. and.... hmmm... i think swanberg has set the bar quite high for other indie directors.
so this is what i ask rob after watching the whole thing:
"rob, does this mean that you don't consider yourself a true indie director unless you masturbate in a shower scene in your own film?"
to be fair, i think swanberg is forging a new type of film style that is honest without being gratiutous. it wasn't porn but it was real. real as in naked. a lot. but it was pretty neat to see this new style being played out without any apologies. i think that's cool.
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