US director Harmony Korine’s second EDGLRD production, now available online, is shallow and mind-numbingly dull First-Person Shooter nonsense. I’ve been putting off watching for as long as I could, ever since it premiered at the . I’d been burned before with Harmony Korine's first feature since starting his multidisciplinary, multimedia outfit called EDGLRD: .
Still, open mind and all that – and considering his second movie has just been released online, I took it upon myself to finally see what the director-turned-troll had in store for audiences next, knowing that it couldn’t possibly be worse than the moronic guff he previously subjected viewers to. Well, watching was humbling in this respect, because if made me almost burst a blood vessel due to how mind-numbingly irritating it was, Korine’s second venture with his production company is possibly worse. I say ‘venture’ at this point because calling a film is charitable in the extreme.
It’s the sort of thing that could have worked as part of an experimental installation. You know the kind – that looped video you endure for a few minutes in a darkened room before moving on to more genuinely envelope-pushing fare. Not that this description would perturb Korine in the slightest, as the provocateur has waxed lyrical about how traditional cinema is a drag to him and how he wants to create outside the boundaries of the seventh art.
But if we're to believe that he’s serious about his “post-cinema” kick, w.
