Bastard druggy or tragic victim? The movie focuses on a young man’s narrative story who is called “Fuckhead” by all of his friends and his tragically stupid choices he makes throughout his life. We follow him as he chases after the heroine shooting Michelle, the women he loves and introduces him to drugs. The plot unfolds as the two go from living in Iowa and Chicago and have mishaps including an unwanted pregnancy and an overdose that leads to Michelle’s untimely death in a hotel room. Fuck head finally goes to rehab and through his tragic situations starts to find himself. The movie jumps between Fuckhead dreams, hallucination and reality. This movie won countless awards including the Ecumenical Award at the 1999 Venice Film Festival.
This movie can also be seen as a stomach turning movie full of disturbing events. One scene depicts a middle age gentle man coming into the hospital that Fuckhead works at with a hunting knife jabbed into his right eye by his wife. Jack Blacks character, high on pills, then pulls the knife out of his head and walks into the hospital lobby holding it as its dripping blood. Another disturbing scene comes when Fuckhead accidently sits on a bag full of baby rabbits and squashes them to death. Although you feel sympathetic for a second, when he starts describing the mutilated body parts of the rabbit’s one may choose to turn off the movie.
The individual style of the movie can be credited to director Alison Maclean. She was born in Canada but raised in New Zealand, she attended Auckland art school. There she combined her unique style for art with her love for film making. One may say she has a dark view on life but tries to break the ice of this cold world by combining it with humor. Her uniqueness at directing was a perfect fit to oversee the making of the movie Jesus Son.
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