Following up Blue Velvet with Rubber is like a match made in heaven. This movie is lynchian in a unique way.
When I heard about this movie, I just heard it's about a rubber tire blowing up people. Never ever has anyone mentioned the whole outlying plot of a group of people in the desert, watching said tire through binoculars.
I love the beginning, a monologue by Stephen Spinella, adressing the ficitonal audience (us) and as we found out soon enough, the actual audience, telling us and them (or maybe we are them??) about No Reason. Then he spills a glass of water onto the ground of the desert and leaves.
It's shot beautifully, the whole opening are just pictures of dirt in the desert, yet everything looks beautiful.
The special effects are not the best, but they are not supposed to be. They do exactly what they should do, because the whole plot of a tire running amok is already ridiculous, why would we need great effects if we buy into that story?
Then again, I wonder how they did most of the scenes with the tire itself, cause they look great.
I really enjoyed this movie, and while the commentary was very on the nose, it never felt judgemental and I really enjoyed how it was done. I'm already excited to watch Wrong, the directors next movie.
4 out of 5 stars, and a big recommendation.
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