![]() ![]() ![]() Putting the protagonist's fundamental stupidity on trial is standard practice for political farce of Mister America's make. At every turn, Heidecker and Newman fail themselves: They neglect to secure press coverage for their town hall debate, which they advertise without a date and time they try to buy an ad in the local paper but they miss the deadline they forge signatures to get Heidecker's name on the ballot, and he still doesn't succeed neither of his opponents bother to show up to the debate. Campaigning is foreign to him, and to his campaign manager, Toni Newman (Terri Parks). He isn't even interested in law except as a means to pursue his chafed personal agenda. Mister America brings to life the speech and the speaker with stomach-churning clarity. ![]() It's the speech of a man who knows he knows nothing but doesn't particularly care, save for when other people might catch the ruse. It's not just what Heidecker says, but how he says it: with outward confidence betrayed by obvious interior self-doubt, compulsively talking while stumbling over his sentences. Mister America validates the anti-expert movement mockumentary-style with rickety handheld camerawork and dialogue that feels ripped straight out of press conferences. Here, Heidecker has beaten a murder charge (via hung jury) following the overdose deaths of 20 attendees, and the hospitalization of 156 others, at a music festival he hosts prior to the film's events seeking petty revenge, he runs for district attorney of San Bernardino County with the sole intent of deposing DA Vincent Rosetti (Don Pecchia), who prosecuted his case.Īmerica 2019 is a time and a place where facts don't matter, experience is optional, and experts are treated as either elitist or irrelevant the politically inept target the politically savvy as public enemy number one, a morass that must be pumped out of American life. But their film has nothing to do with pop and everything to do with politics. Eric Notarnicola owns directing credit on the film, but the chief architect is comedian Tim Heidecker, who plays a twisted version of himself as he does in the comedic movie podcast On Cinema at the Cinema Heidecker, Notarnicola, and Gregg Turkington, Heidecker's On Cinema at the Cinema co-star, have spun Mister America from that series, which in itself feels like a low-key swipe at contemporary pop culture's insistence on shared universe franchising. ![]()
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