I saw ‘Hello Dankness’ and enjoyed the ride. I love the way cinema opens up collective experiences by transporting you into a world that literally turns upside down or opens a chasm into the ground. A world that creates secret doors to the Bill Gates foundation and expresses collective hysteria, disenchantment, difference and most of all brings all of these people into the same frame.

Films like this help create a point of focus for difficult times, it brings the story into a narrative that is only as weird as the times themselves. The strange part about the film is even though it is playful at times it brings a sense that now there is a record of a strange period of history that I believe most people can relate to.

The fact that it starts in the suburbs of America, the collective filmic unconscious of Western minds, breaking into act two of Trump as Garfield in true gritty internet cartoon style that prepares you for the ongoing saga of Covid, mindless zombies and Robocop. The great part is you have some fun seeing the whole thing play out but also see the tension in scenes where there is nothing but anguish against silence.

I came away from the movie feeling that the whole period was captured in a way that I know only too well but once wished I didn’t know before the movie, but after the movie was glad to see it expressed in a way I couldn’t have imagined. This of course is the great part of the Soda Jerk duo who go through so many movies finding the hidden chasm that lets us peer at the Phantom of the Opera who has the ‘Pee Pee Video’.