Factotum
DVD Review: Factotum
Now that I have gotten that warning out of the way, you have to watch this movie if only for Matt Dillon’s performance. He truly shines in a dark, hung over sort of way. And Lili Taylor, while not playing a character you’d want to bring home to mom and dad, plays her part remarkably.
With more cigarettes and alcohol than the engine room of a Soviet frigate during break time, Factotum is an adaptation of the 1975 Charles Bukowski book by the same title. If you know anything about Bukowski, you’ll know why I had my warnings in the first paragraph. I think Bukowski is Polish for, “manic depressive”. The film has very few heart warming bright spots but its dance with the intoxicated, unemployed life of people who think they have no reason to live, is eye opening. The film will also have you chuckling at the oddest things, i.e. getting crabs and having to tape your testicles to your butt. Hey, you’ll take any laughs you can get with Bukowski material.
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