Oh dear. Has bobcat Goldthwaite gone too far with his movie God Bless America?

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. But we have seen the trailer

And most trailers are not designed to deceive about the real story in the film. The trailer is full of prats who are shot by the main characters, and has been cut to specify they are prats, have them shot, and then move on.

Any fact of reality may be open to satire, but I can't see that a couple of people murdering because of petty annoyances is satire of a couple who did it because of 'issues'. It would seem to trivialise it, if anything. If you can explain how this film is satire of the DC couple, then do it.

Yes, it's possible that the audience itself is the target of the satire; perhaps the film turns around at the end and says "you laughed at that? You cheered? Well, you're a psychopath just like the ones in the movie". The Canadian review gives no indication there is such an attempt to turn this into satire; indeed, it never mentions satire at all, just 'really, really black comedy'. You say you think Goldthwait wouldn't want to just do a "how funny it is to see annoying people get killed" movie; but it's possible that he's failed to get across any other message he tried to put in. The review sounds like that, anyway - he objects to it 'getting a little preachy' because he's looking for a film 'for everyone to enjoy'. If most viewers just end up laughing at the prats and the deaths, which seems to be what the reviewer did, then he should have reshot the film until it said more than "yay, another prat dead!".

No, there are subjects 'unacceptable for comedy'. You shouldn't make a film that tries to get laughs by being racist, for instance. It might be popular and get laughs in racist areas, but that doesn't make it acceptable. 'Dexter' involves killing evil people; there's a long distance between that and killing people whose cellphones go off during movies.