I don’t know if it’s the cartoonist or the comics. Although it is a documentary, the whole film is quite weird. After reading it, I feel uncomfortable. It may not be suitable for some people to watch, after all, it is niche. No wonder there are so few film reviews, let me add something.
The film shows Robert Crumb's pioneering role in underground comics. Interviewed his family and ex-girlfriends. In the btw film, he and his ex-wife’s son died in 2017, and were related to a car accident at the age of 45. There are also comments from Robert Hughes and Trina Robbins, as well as introductions of many works. The perspective of Crumb’s psychology and his dark suspicion of life.
The eldest brother Charles killed himself before the release of the film. It is true that his work shows him a step-by-step mental disorder, and the later work does not look very good. In fact, he obviously feels that his life is irrelevant. If he doesn't go out all the year round, shut himself up, repeat reading books that he considers to be excellent, he can't get an erection a long time ago. In the film, he is really very nervous, saying that he has committed suicide many times. He took overdose of sleeping pills but went to gastric lavage. In the end, the cause of suicide was overdose.
When my younger brother Maxon introduced each of his works, I was amazed by the masterpieces. The strange line shapes are perfect. Maxon himself also speaks with great vigour, but it feels like Robert can't appreciate it. Later, while shaking his hands, he talked about the shorts of the beauty in the convenience store, saying that even if she sacrificed her life, she would molest that beauty, as well as sitting on nail boards and swallowing white cloth strips, emmm was too weird.
Although the three brothers are a bit neurotic, how far is the distance between the artist and the mental patient?
Robert's works also have a lot of sex. I think the expression of human desire is good, provided that it is definitely not suitable for underage viewing. For the strong heroine and the wretched male protagonist, Robert's cowardice is also shown from the side.
Zwigoff also believes that the parts of Charles and Maxon play a crucial role in Robert's story. Otherwise, the name of the movie won't be Crumb~
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