I kinda start thinking about my reviews the moment a movie begins and I was going to begin this review by saying that this was so not the movie I was expecting to see. Paul Schrader’s name on the director’s credit calls to my mind a certain kind of movie and this movie begins at the other end of the spectrum. The weird thing is, it becomes the movie I expected to see as the end approaches. I love how the production design, camera work and make-up take the movie from almost the clean-cut edge of the 50s right up to the seedy edge of the 80s. The movie covers a shorter time-scale than this but that’s the way it felt to me, it’s like a microcosm of how the planet took a dive from such high hopes, a journey from innocence to extravagance, the very title hinting at the laziness of now. I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing “Hogan’s Heroes” so some of the movie may have gone over my head but I guess it’s no different from the “Taxi” sequences in Man on the Moon: it’s not a major part of the movie, just more context.

Double bill it with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and maybe even make it a triple with Kinsey.

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