"The beach slacker" —relatively philosophical cinema Well... the beach slacker is a relatively philosophical movie that presents the idea of “live for your pleasure” in a slightly unconventional, even provocative way. However, he makes it funny and clearly not so seriously (rather comically exaggerated) that the picture could be accused of something.
A middle-aged man nicknamed the Moon Dog (Matthew McConaughey), a tanned long-haired blonde who prefers Hawaiian shirts of screaming flowers, is a living classic of American poetry and at the same time a legend of the Florida resort of Key West, where he drinks around the clock, smokes grass, fishes and enters into intimate relationships with strangers, not forgetting to sometimes knock on the keys of a typewriter.
The Moon Dog’s confused odyssey, mounted in a convulsive rhythm of memory, dances between the heated geysers of success and inner harmony, trying to find where poetry begins and ends, from what rubbish or what pain it grows, what is the difference between selfishness and high. Finally, it is an attempt at enlightenment without any pathos - only with naive poems about sunset and sex, a luxurious pink robe, a magical bush of marijuana from Cuba, a furious cunnilingus, a dolphin-obsessed Martin Lawrence, a vatag of homeless people and even crazier Christian rocker Zac Efron.
An hour and a half of "Bezdelnik" feels like all two, but in the best sense - it's a movie that you don't really think about, just want it not to end. At the same time, Korin is extremely collected: look at the deceptive laxity of the film and see a rather complex structure, where everything, as they say, is hooked, has its backlogs and throws. In terms of simple pleasures, the picture steps over with a glass of a cocktail in the hands of even “Straight Vacation”. In the program: poetic battles with homeless people, slugging from the police in a helicopter, dancing with transvestites, walking with sharks and, of course, the kingdom of grass and dreams. Dialogues, written with unsurpassed lazy elegance, pour like sand through memory, settling somewhere in the subcortex with especially successful phrases.
“Beach slacker” does not require the viewer any reflection, immersion or even attention during the session. The movie goes by itself, and you can connect to the viewing at any second - a lot of things happen here, but at the same time nothing happens.
That’s the philosophy behind Moon Dog and with it the whole movie. The morality of which, perhaps, is controversial, but at least it does not smell boredom and flooded modern cinema moralizing. Sometimes you just want to take a break.
A genius who was not destined to die young, must let everything run to the wind with brilliance, let himself be dragged to pieces, because the most important thing from him no one will ever take.