On Friday nights, Indieview after dark honors the fringe cinema in the current age with Midnight movies from at any time in film history.
First BAIT: a strange genre and why we explore its specific niche Right now. Then, BITE: A spoiler -filled answer to the absolutely important question, “Is this old cult classic actually worth recommending?”
Beting: No food? No women? No shit.
There is a feminist interpretation of “A boy and his dog“Lurking somewhere inside this shared black comedy from 1975. But I might just be a small Too depressed to find it.
No worries! We can still flop on the sofa, stream it for free and let the perhaps misunderstood, anti-fascist cult classic-about a brutal cleanser named Vic (Don Johnson) and his psychic dog named Blood (expressed by Tim Mcintire) -Smala both of us as a hug in a heat bow.
This summer in the US has been difficult. Notroam a post-apocalyptic wasteland that searches for humanity“Hard, but challenging for all the same. 50 years ago, actor LQ Jones collected $ 400,000 to direct an adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s” A Boy and His Dog. “It is a twisted collection of stories about an authoritarian regime that combines elements in the friendly adventure with a hard perverse and yet strong anti-sex nightmare. Themes feel fresh now.
“Eisenhower … Truman … Kennedy …”
We meet Vic and blood as Ambar through the desert. It is 2024 AD But Brat Summer is nowhere in sight. Comrades rely on each other in a world consumed by conspiracy, corruption and core panic. Bandits, raiders and more monsters creep the barren landscape. Charismatic psychosis on wagons directly gives “a boy and his dog” as inspiration for “Mad Max” (George Miller has said so much) – but the role it played to form backwards Americana of “Fall-out” Glows even brighter.
“Johnson … Nixon … Ford … Kennedy … Kennedy … Kennedy …”
Questions by his dogmate, recites Vic former US presidents to recall his country’s weak history. From 1950 to 1983, the Second World War lasted decades, but the Second World War ended in a few days? Yikes. Born in Real 2006, Vic would have entered an America that launched Twitter, discovered Taylor Swift, transported Saddam Hussein and reclassifies Pluto as a dwarf plane.
But here? Here he is an evil 18-year-old for a hopeless future in a cesspool that previously felt like Phoenix, Arizona. (He would have voted for Trump somehow – but one sounds better than the other.)
The deal between dog and deadly? Vic feeds blood and blood sniffs women for Vic to rape. “No food. No women.“It’s the arrangement. It’s a sick attitude but the filmmaker is not shy. Jangly Keys plays under the title card and puts up a bizarre collision that feels like a kind of complicated intimacy.
“You’re not a nice person, Albert,” Blood chides. He is sardonic in the middle of the sexual violence. “You’re not a nice person at all.”
He mocks Vic with a literary reference, although it is not clear in the film. As Ellison explains in the novel, Albert Payson Terhune was known for writing moderate books about his beloved Collies. “A boy and his dog” see blood repeatedly punish Vic for his friendship in a semi-antagonistic relationship that feels toxic male and co-dependent in a “Wilfred” way. The blood is smarter than his human being, but their power struggle is punctured with fried boy enforcement, such as “Fuzzy butt” and “dog meat” on both sides.
Enter Quilla June (Susanne Benton). She is a beautiful woman who wins Vic’s heart in the middle of an attack. He beams, ”I’m the one who wants to do it!” – A political parallel so on the nose on the current cultural warriors, it may as well be the face mask on a scientific Denier’s chin.
Will Quilla finally run blood and vic apart? Or will “a boy and his dog” escape a tyranny on a (gasp) Horny human woman alive?! Sink in the bad summer vibes and find out on Tubi. (Yes, yes, it is owned by Fox, but the service for free. So free pass for everyone. I have nothing to do with it either.)
“A boy and his dog” are now flowing on Tubi.
Bit: Is it the harmful normalization of violence against women – or are you just happy to see me?
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