Meet The Parents - Robert De Niro - Ben Stiller
Watching the film Meet The Parents led to severe
indigestion as the sadistic plot unfolded with Stiller
subjected to such humiliations and the characters
becoming such unreal combinations of incredible
and unconvincing stereotypes, I felt ill, depressed,
sad and threatened, trying to convince the Lord &
Master of the CharCastle and my friend Barbara
is was dark humour, like the horror genre created
by Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Anne Rice, but
the audience just laughed, saying they enjoyed the
Ben Stiller discomfiture as he confronted the, to my
mind, unnatural, autistic behaviour of Robert De Niro
While the unbelievable cast of weird characters in the
story heightened my sense of horror and threat, when
Ben Stiller finally won by providing his credentials and
De Niro accepting him - I was worn out and tired and
did not care for the ending, the horror was too much,
when the journey is so absurd and humiliating as this,
No amount of comedy and positive ending can make
up for the price I paid when losing my peace of mind
and suffering with the persecuted protagonist....
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The Critic Douglas Pratt [combination of the names of
my favourite authors, Douglas Adams [The Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy] & Terry Pratchett [Discworld Series]
great symbolism - called the film sadistic - and I concur
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