So as I asserted in my last post, Stranger Than Fiction fell short for me in the sense that it attempts to be a comedy (it doesn't end in the hero's death), a postmodernist film (the reflexive analysis of the role of non-diegetic narrative), and a romance (Click and Pascal end up together, despite ideological differences).
What I'd like to show in this post is a film that is a relevant and contiguous postmodernist comedy. (If you didn't already know, or if you'll scroll down to the previous post, you'd know that my beef with Stranger Than Fiction was not the movie as a whole, but the concluding 15 minutes in which the movie deteriorates into the same old Hollywood crap.) In the short film, "Diegesis," by Poykpac (a comedy troop located in Brooklyn, featuring two Millbrook alumni—Dave Powell [not featured] and Jonny Gillette [the brilliantly portrayed Orlando]), they offer a short that is comedic, postmodern, and contiguous (that is—self-cohesive from start to finish, i.e. where Stranger Than Fiction fails.)
See for yourselves:
DIEGESIS: A Film
If you're gonna go postmodernist, then do it with all the reflexivity, absurdity, and lightness that entails.
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