Country Boy
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by Stephen Jacobson, Ryan Ackelsberg, Ellen Stringer
Tones: absurdist, humorous, provocative
Two boys try to get paper, manifest their dream trucks, and become "country as fuck" in 2019. An edgy free-for-all where the operating principle is do drugs and get weird.
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Refreshing to find a short that refuses to be respectable — three directors playing themselves, getting weird on purpose. The taste levels are correctly miscalibrated.
Three co-directors playing themselves do drugs and get weird in pursuit of being country-as-fuck — gonzo by any measure, but more Jackass than Tim & Eric. I'll decline on this one; the chaos doesn't congeal.
Three co-directors playing themselves in a gonzo rural-cosplay free-for-all — 'do drugs and get weird' is a vibe more than a structure, and the page summary is thin on craft choices.