Bad Boy Bubby is a film I feel is extremely important to both its audience and the art of cinema, but one that gets very little attention, most likely do to its experimental nature. If only it were still the 70′s! I feel a film like this would get a bit more attention if it were. The time when filmmakers risky and personal visions were considered sellable product. Ah, to dream of paradise. But look, seriously, see this movie. Filmmaker Rolf De Heer explores the human condition using a 35 year old man who has been locked up in his shit-hole apartment his entrie life. Kept prisoner by his mother, Bubby knows very little of what goes on in the outside world. When his father returns for the first time since his birth, Bubby is forced out on to the streets to discover what living is really all about. What follows is an amazing journey of a man with no preconceived ideas of what it is to be a good person. Nicholas Hope does an outstanding job portraying Bubby and makes us understand the character even when he ignorantly does some of the most awful of things. There are so many scenes in which I would love to talk about, but I always find it annoying when I read about stuff like that and haven’t yet seen the film. What I would rather do is push you to see this movie and then open up your own dialog about it.

WARNING: Bubby is not a film for people who are offended easily. It takes a very serious look at what shapes and molds us as people. Our ideals, philosophies and religious fantatisism.  If you are not interested in having a mirror held up to your face then please stay away. Bubby is an experience, and not always a pleasant one. But please know that it is richly hilarious in a lot of its execution. Sometimes the truth about us silly humans is quite funny.


Much love
Travis

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