I thought I’d start posting more about some of the crazy forked up movies we rent from our beloved Unique Video. I’ll post about our past movies as well.

So recently we checked out another Todd Solondz movie, Storytelling. After seeing Welcome to the Dollhouse six bah-zillion times and of course the brutally-honest-crazy-freaking-disturbing movie Happiness, it’s sort of hard to pass up a Todd Solondz piece of work. I still have to see his older film Fear, Anxiety and Depression.

Storytelling is divided up into two segments, “Fiction” and “Nonfiction”. The first, Fiction, tells the story of a woman taking a fiction-writing class, played by Selma Blair.

The second segment, Nonfiction, gives the details of a soon-to-be documentarian and his new found subject, a suburban high school boy (and his whacked out family starring John Goodman as the father).

The movie delves into a bunch of issues (i.e.: race, sex, exploitation, etc.) and has a nice dark comedy undertone. I have to say, the ending was a bit disappointing. One of those endings that you go, “WTF?! You can just end the movie here!”

A decent movie and highly recommended if you enjoyed Todd’s previous movies, especially Happiness.