Middle Sized Things
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Michael Rees
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A steadfast student picks a fight with a guest lecturer over metaphysics, and the seminar room becomes a comic battleground for moral ambiguity. Higher-ed hierarchy, stripped to its passive-aggressive bones.
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A movie that gets comedic mileage out of a metaphysics lecture is doing something the algorithm cannot explain. I respect that on principle.
A philosophy-lecture interruption as the entire dramatic engine — Whiplash-via-epistemology with everyone too polite. Risky, talky, hard to know if it sustains.
Philosophy lecture interruption as the entire dramatic engine — escalation through pedantry is exactly the kind of seminar-room comedy I love when it commits. Al Warren as the lecturer is perfect casting.
Reviews
Demonstrates a refreshing exploration of extreme behavior and the reactions that follow.