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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is Little Otik (2000), a Czech horror-comedy-fantasy from renowned auteur Jan Svankmajer, whose films Alice (1988), Faust (1994), and Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) we previously watched. The film centers on a couple who find themselves to have a child; they instead adopt a gnarled root and pretend it is a baby, and uh-oh, the fake baby becomes sentient through sheer willpower. Horror and humor ensue as the monstrous child developer s ravenous appetite. Yes, Svankmajer pretty much remade Eraserhead (1977), but with his signature stop-motion effects and dark comedy. This is one of Svankmajer’s best-known films, and is considered a cult classic, so let’s check it out.
After that is She’s the Man (2006), a teen rom-com that adapts Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night to a 21st-century Usian high school setting. Amanda Bynes stars as Viola, who hatches a plot to disguise herself as her twin brother and take his place at a boarding school, where she learns how to be a man, even as she falls in love with her hunky roommate. Uh-oh, what happens when bro shows up at the school and doesn’t know that his sister has taken his identity? Comedy, that’s what. This is by the best-known and best-regarded film of director Andy Fickman, whose credits otherwise include a bunch of even sloppier slop, such as, uhh, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015). This is really popular on Letterboxd, for some reason, so we’ll give it a shot.
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Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- Little Otik: https://letterboxd.com/film/little-otik/
- She’s the Man: https://letterboxd.com/film/shes-the-man/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- Little Otik: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/182987
- She’s the Man: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/16061
CWs for Little Otik:
- Implied pedophilia.
- Sad animal.
- Sexualization of minor.
- Child abuse.
- Alcohol abuse.
- Death of cat.
- Death of pet.
- Animal corpses.
- Babies.
- Crying baby.
- Vomiting.
- Implied sex.
- Nudity.
- Blood and gore.
- Carnism.
CWs for She’s the Man:
- Animal corpses.
- Misogyny.
- Misgendering.
- Objectification of female characters..
- Spiders.
- Bugs.
- Slapping of woman.
- Someone is physically restrained.
- Razors.
- Clowns.
- Shower scene.
- Natural bodies of water.
- Spitting.
- Meltdown.
- Screaming.
- Profanity.
- Someone is watched without their knowledge.
- Fat jokes.
- Misgendering.
- Hate speech.
- Sexual innuendos.
- Blood.
- Shaving.
- Unconsciousness.
Links to movies:
- Little Otik: https://tankie.tube/w/cyR6LvjetyMhcPFETN9K9Q
- She’s the Man: https://tankie.tube/w/dfNoNQVnM9FHDovPesRvTs