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25.01.2022 - 07:51 / variety.com
Michael Nordine authorWhat happens when a cutting-edge artist no longer considers himself cutting edge? That’s one question raised by “Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People,” but it’s far from the only one. In addition to being a stop-motion animated documentary about Brazilian cartoonist Angeli, it’s also a psychedelic road movie in which a roving pack of tiny, bloodthirsty Elton Johns set their sights on a punk-rock vigilante trying to reach his creator: Angeli himself.
That’s nothing if not a unique premise, but writer-director Cesar Cabral’s animated whatsit proves more compelling as a concept than as an actual movie.“Bob Spit” is most notable for its formal approach, which intermingles animated interviews of Angeli with a bizarre, at times surreal narrative featuring characters from his comic strips. The interview segments are intentionally barebones, background noise and all, creating an effect that feels both lived-in and a little off-putting.
It’s not quite the uncanny valley, but it does take some getting used to. This warts-and-all approach — you sometimes see the boom mic in the corner of the screen, and at one point filming stops because nearby construction sounds prove too distracting — ultimately befits Angeli’s anarchic style.
After being introduced to him, we then meet two of his cartoon creations: the Kowalsi twins, who exist only in Angeli’s mind and are trying to reach him by sending a kind of psychic distress signal. They live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where water is scarce and violence is common, a place that would lack any semblance of order were it not for the film’s namesake: a green, shotgun-wielding vigilante with a mohawk, septum piercing and devil-may-care attitude.
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