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I just saw this in Salt Lake City at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was both shocked, amazed, delighted and disgusted by it. It is some kind of weird masterpiece. It's based on a book and the filmmakers at the Q & A said it was very faithfully adapted.

Though the story focuses on the obsessions of its pawn shop owning protagonist, namely a pretty girl's ass, a smelly backed-up bathroom drain, and a glass eye, it still manages to be full of intelligent, thought-provoking ideas and themes.

I really loved this film because it is so unbelievably original and fresh, both in its content and with its form. The viewer never knows where it's going to go as it twists and turns through its strange little storyline.

Check out this short documentary from Sam Green. It's really interesting. So is N Judah 5:30 which is also on the disc. The Pie Fight '69 footage was lost for decades until someone found it in the trash. It is a good example of radicalism in the 60s and 70s, but with a new twist: the "soft bomb." Sam Green is an excellent filmmaker who hopefully will go on to make many more great documentaries. See The Weather Underground in addition to his three films on The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 DVD. They will stick in your mind for weeks. Pie Fight '69 is short and to the point, but it captures the zeitgeist wonderfully well. I gotta look up PDQ Bach to see what else this guy has done.