Most films that go straight to video deserve to go straight to video. But this is an injustice of the highest order, and I order you to go out and burn people by way of protest. Look at the number of shitty films that hit cinema screens each month. It's an appalling state of affairs, and how a distributor decides to send this to cinema jail just because not enough people in America saw it is beyond any rhyme or reason.
Charlie Kaufman, who wrote Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, wrote this way before anyone had heard of him in Hollywood, and it doesn't really compare to anything else you've seen. Tim Robbins is an anal, uptight, repressed man, the result of a strict upbringing. His parents were obsessed with manners and etiquette, and we find him training mice to use the correct cutlery while dining. He hooks up with Patricia Arquette, who plays an author of books with titles like Fuck Humanity, and is secretly covered in body hair. Together they discover a feral man in the woods (Rhys Ifans), who they bring home and attempt to civilise. Then come the French temptresses, midgets and guns.
It's a very surreal, funny, sweet film, and it looks great - it's helmed by Michel Gondry, director of numerous Bjork videos and currently working on Charlie Kaufman's next opus, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. Anyway, Human Nature is out now on DVD and video, go and watch it please, thank me later.
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