Year:
1996
Studio:
View Askew Productions
Feature:
1/5
DVD:
3/5
Drawing Flies is
the loving work of Matthew Gissing and Malcolm Ingram, who wrote and
directed the movie. The two guys were there a lot during the filming of
Mallrats and
befriended the cast and crew. Kevin Smith got them some funding,
various View Askew actors agreed to act in it and they filmed it. This
is an independent film and it totally looks it.
Filmed in black and white, this is the story of a group of post-college
friends in Canada who are a bunch of slackers. Their job ambitions are
to get work long enough so that when they lose their job they can
collect Canada's version of welfare for a few months. Apparently they
like to smoke pot. It's an aimless existence.
And then one night, in a pot-induced dream, Donner (Jason Lee) has a
vision of Sasquatch (Bigfoot). He becomes obsessed with finding them,
living with being, being one of them. But he doesn't want to look for
them alone so he enlists his friends into joining him for a camping
trip to his uncles cabin.
His friends Az (Jason Mewes), Jake (Martin Brooks), Meg (Renée
Humphrey) and his girlfriend Cassidy (Carmen Lee) join him. And as the
hiking trip goes on Donner starts going over the edge. The movie
becomes one man's trip into madness and how his friends cope with it.
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This is a
relatively uninteresting movie. The acting is not that bad I guess, but
the whole things looks so awful. Obviously done on a shoestring budget
which means not that many takes. Frankly I the story wasn't all that
interesting.
The best thing about this movie is the commentary track, which includes
the two creators plus the cast and Kevin Smith. There are also some
deleted scenes and a director's cut which is basically the movie with
the couple of deleted scenes inserted. This is not a movie I can
recommend.
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