{"id":549,"date":"2010-09-08T07:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T14:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2010-09-08T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T14:28:10","slug":"daily-dose-review-im-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Daily Dose Review: I’M STILL HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI want to take the opportunity to announce that this will be my last movie review. Yes, after watching Casey Affleck\u2019s defecating documentary masterpiece, I\u2019M STILL HERE, a film sure to make more than one critic\u2019s best of list, I\u2019ve decided to do something completely different with my life.<\/p>\n

And to that end, I\u2019m entering shark infested waters of politics. Having visited Alaska on a fishing trip when I was fourteen back in the 1980s, I intend to make the state whose motto is \u201cNorth to the Future\u201d my new home. This radical move will land me in Wasilla where I\u2019ll throw my hat in the ring for mayor. To make myself more popular, I\u2019ll engage in a platonic romance with Bristol Palin by perfecting my best tango with all the right moves. When highly inebriated, I\u2019m sure to cut quite a rug. <\/p>\n

And if the lesson of I\u2019M STILL HERE is to be followed, a radical departure from one\u2019s profession requires copious amounts of illegal substances. Hopefully, I\u2019ll make friends with a local Wasilla dealer who has mixed up in his bathtub ample supplies of stimulating meth. Extensive recreational use of the damaging bathroom drug will inevitably lead to my breakdown including loss of most of my teeth. It will all be vividly captured by my brother who will make great use of his education as a minister to save my eternal soul from the searing hell fires of damnation. The entire sorry story will be streamed on various video platforms including an exclusive deal with YouTube for uncensored footage.<\/p>\n

I\u2019M STILL HERE is a blueprint for restarting one\u2019s life. It helps if you begin this journey on top of your chosen field, rich, and emotionally tilted. That is how the film begins with Joaquin Phoenix as one of America\u2019s top rated actors explaining to us in one of many unintelligible rants that he can\u2019t act anymore and that his true passions lie in music. Phoenix will become JP the hip hop artist. And instead of busting his mad lyrics on the streets in ghetto style mixtape fashion, JP\u2019s album will be produced by the best\u2014if Dr. Dre ain\u2019t available, P. Diddy will just have to do.<\/p>\n

To find oneself we learn from I\u2019M STILL HERE one has to lose oneself. And this involves JP turning his back on what got him where he is, and through a drugged out, sexed out phantasmagoria emerge as something new and philosophical\u2014a hairy feces covered poet for a twisted YouTube generation. Is it all real? It really doesn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n

At one point in the film, JP mumbles to Sean Combs that he\u2019s got a recording studio in his home all outfitted with Pro Tools. The joke is on us. Combs isn\u2019t buying it, and I\u2019m not likely to move to Alaska. However, I\u2019m still interested in learning the tango and my minister brother could probably help me find some much needed religion. Changing one\u2019s life doesn\u2019t require a descent into depravity. It just requires a commitment to change. And as I\u2019M STILL HERE colorfully illustrates that commitment can be a self-destructive voyage discovering nothing.<\/p>\n

NOTE: This review was my first reaction to I\u2019M STILL HERE, a film billed as a documentary but being called a \u201cmock-\u201cumentary by most critics. I intend to explore this more with a more traditional review of the film on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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