Foot: Cleveland Film Festival "Rubber" Review

The movie that I went to see was called "Rubber". It is about a care tire that comes to life and can blow up things with its mind. It may sound like a weird science fiction movie, and that it is weird is not being disputed. I found the movie to be one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. The beginning scene set up all the silliness that was to come in the movie. A police officer gets out of a car, and comes up to the camera. He looks into the camera and says, "In Spielberg's E.T. why is the alien brown? No reason" he goes on into a list of other movies that have no reason, and ends up saying that this story too has an element of no reason. Which makes this movie one of the funniest ones that I have seen. Personally, I found that it was just a movie to enjoy. The technique used was simplistic and very fun. Cinematography wise there were a lot of close up shots of the tire and the people that it was killing. It was definitely gory, and I don't much of a blood person so I closed my eyes at some parts. 

The acting was amazing. I don't think I would be able to hold a straight face while filming this movie, but the characters were not well developed enough to care about them. The audience that was in the film, watching the tire had some of the best actor's and actresses. Most of them were little know actors but they definitely played the part of film critics and had a very humorous air about them. The plot of the movie is hard to figure out. After thinking about it for a few days, I don't think that there really is a plot. That is what makes it so funny. The plot of the movie could be to stop the tire from killing people, but that never happens. It is just one ridiculous scenario after the other. As for themes in the movie, the major theme is "no reason". Mostly all the action that happens in the story has no reason to it. The tire never explains why it is killing these people, or why it is so fascinated with one of the young women in the movie. It just goes around killing everyone. The genre of the film is very much a mystery to me. I think that it could be classified as a horror/comedy movie. Definitely could fall into the science fiction category as well, but it's not very clear. Overall, I really enjoyed my film. It made me laugh, and it made me think twice about a tire on the side of the road. I know that inanimate objects can't come to life, but it is fun to think about it.