2009 · comedy · dark
Observe and Report
Directed by Jody Hill1h 26m2009
Mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective is recruited to close the case.
Our read: Observe and Report (2009) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · dark entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / dark, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
- intimate
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Skip it tonight — Uncomfortable violence and toxic delusion will kill a casual comedy mood.
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