Thursday, June 25, 2015

The Wolfpack (2015)

Very interesting documentary we got here.  Decided to catch it at the Alamo Drafthouse last night.  So unbelievable that this actually happened.   If you ever think you're family is weird, stop, check out this story about The Angulo family, and you'll take back everything you thought about your own family.  Not that I think my family is weird. Just saying it in general.  This is literally one of the most bizarre documentaries I've ever seen.  It is the story about six brothers who were raised being locked away in an apartment with their sister, mother, and crazy father.  They would go out in the real world maybe once or twice a year.  In order to not go insane, the brothers would watch a shit load of movies and they would re-enact their favorite scenes.  The only thing they know about the real world is what they know through movies.  As they get older, they start rebelling and little by little, they start going out into the real world.  You have to see it to believe it.  I think that's one of the slogans for the doc.  The awesome parts were the homemade movie re-enactments.  Pulp Fiction!  They do a lot of Pulp Fiction (my favorite movie of all time).  They do Reservoir Dogs, The Dark Knight, and more.  The last part of the doc gets very bizarre and there are things that were left unanswered and other questions were drawn.  Other than that, very interesting.  Gotta see it once in your life, especially if you're a cinephile.  Not a priority though.  Good Thanksgiving movie.   
7 out of 10.