Never Been Thought Of

            At first as I watched Never Been Thawed, I had a hard time focusing on it and found myself becoming distracted and really not enjoying it.  I felt like the whole movie was horribly thought out and had zero comedy.  I think this might have been due to the lower quality of the filming and just the abnormal blatancy that the movie had.  However, later in the week, I re-watched it and tried my normal techniques for analyzing the movies we watch and really focused on the movie and I came to notice much more of the humor and that the movie isn’t actually entirely horrible. 

            I believe that the movie is definitely character driven and I found the diversity of characters that all come together for the collection of can you believe it… Frozen TV dinners.  This strange collection was then accented by the way people went about obtaining these meals and the storage thereof.  The deep freezers, the glass door freezers to properly display the impressive collections all come together to allude to peoples tendencies to focus too much on substance goods.  The movie made a play at how society at least in America just want more and more substance that keeping them really does nothing for them other than to show ownership and more possessions.  This occurs with things not just food but also other ridiculous items that people begin to collect and become obsessed with.  Then once you find common interests people form groups that establish languages that to others sounds like a foreign language to those that are not up on the lingo of the certain collection.  

            The movie also had many sexual jokes and subliminal hints in many aspects of the film.  Starting out with KOCK radio, and a Celibacy call line, and a diverse character set of gays, straights, and virgins.  Throughout the entire film jokes such as those made that a gay guy was turned straight by being told by the church of “filthy sinfulness and just being with a woman to him then falling off the wagon when he gets together with another man.  The gay jokes were continued in aspects such as the firefighter segment of how to be a hero and or him collecting dishes from burned houses. 

            So simply just because a film doesn’t at first appeal to your normal liking don’t be so quick to shut it down,  if anything, leave it for a moment and look up background info on it and what all was put into filming it, what the director meant to do with the film and then go into watching the movie with an open mind and I guarantee you will see more humor and other aspects of the film that you weren’t previously seeing.