Review of Ape (2012) by Lee M — 27 Apr 2014
If Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' & 'The King of Comedy', Bronstein's 'Frownland' and Schumacher's 'Falling Down' (with a touch of Cronenberg & Korine) had engaged in an orgy while next to a raging inferno, you'd get this movie.
Trevor is a struggling comedian who is also a pyromaniac. One day he makes a deal with a man dressed as the devil in exchange for a golden apple. The apple he eats in it's entirety while on stage and it boosts his confidence while slowly sucking the life out of him.
As a way of removing his humility, but to remind him of it, someone in an ape costume parades around like the man in the rabbit suit from Donnie Darko. It plays an existential role in Trevor's toilet flush of a life, but you can't help but find a likable quality to him.
Joshua Burge as Trevor was utterly convincing as the psycho comedian with a pyromania fetish. The anti-funny stance to the stand up world was perfectly satirized and the real world surrounding Trevor's struggle was harsh and sad.
Still, it's an impressively made movie with a LOT of angry energy buried underneath.
This review of Ape (2012) was written by Lee M on 27 Apr 2014.
Ape has generally received positive reviews.
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