Call clown Will Carson (Brian O’Halloran), a life-loser, is unable not only to stand up for himself, but also to find a real job. His main career achievement is part-time work as a clown at children's parties. But everything changes overnight after three sadistic perverts rape the hero.
Bryan Johnson's film is a very unusual spectacle, in certain scenes, can cause disgust. In principle, in the plot about the vile gang rape of a man in the image of a clown by other men, such oppressive, repulsive feelings from the screen, perhaps manifest themselves in any sane person and this will be quite normal, adequate reaction. Do not close your eyes from the moment of abuse of the hero, can afford, probably, only the same scumbags as the villains of this tape. In addition to this psychopathic part, all subsequent events seem somehow, also not quite sane.
In addition to being insane, everything becomes schizophrenic. Despite the fact that there are reasonable steps in the actions of the hero, at the same time, it is like David Lynch snatching directorial power from Brian Johnson, filling the plot with his own handwriting. From which the story with a hint of hard, complex drama, a mess of some "Mulholland Drive", the same Lynch. Yes, this picture has something in common with the works of the great master of film puzzles.
It is a pity that Brian O’Halloran is far from Naomi Watts, neither in external parameters nor in acting, although a share of his comic irony is enough to reveal his character, despised by everyone around. His careless play, gives Will Carson some credibility, making not the most logical arthouse, more vital, or what.
By the way, then I remembered, in my opinion, a ridiculous plot flaw with unexpectedly fallen glory on the hero-clown, turned into a real TV star. Such a development of events, somehow, does not really pull on the plausibility of this concept, driving into it a strong nail of scripted contrivedness. And somehow it turns out awkwardly, because the film from this, much goes beyond, the pool of hopelessness from which it all began.
Although here, you just need to remember about the present symptoms of schizophrenia and unstable mood behavior of the tape described earlier. But it is good that the creators, including Kevin Smith himself, approached the performance of the finale seriously and responsibly, rounding out the “rendezvous” of the unlucky clown, reasonably. It remains only to regret that not from the very beginning, everything was so smooth, and be content with what is.
6 out of 10