Guy

It really bugs me when some lame piece of tripe like this, under the guise of 'art' gets puked up on a screen before me. Pretentious nonsense like this which pretends to be insightful and intelligent tends to ruin the reputation of the few good 'artsy' films that manage to get made. My only hope is that they put MST3K back on the air, so if anybody ever has to suffer through this pain parade can at least have a somewhat enjoyable time.

The movie "Guy", from 1996, came to Mexico on September, 1998, probably because The Truman Show is about to be released here, and they are related in a certain way.

The only valuable thing on this movie is the acting of Vincent D'Onofrio, who is excellent playing Guy. The story is plain and boring.

This is a great movie, it gave me so much to think about. It provides an insight about feeling safe while you are being watched, in this film it's a movie producer but although it doesn't directly tell it, or maybe it doesn't tell it at all, it could have referring to your parents watching you or why some people believe in god and feel safe with the thought of god watching over them. And the best part is that it doesn't dictate anything, this movie is nearly like a poem, you can understand it in many different ways, and everyone watching it can understand or see something different from it. And the best part is that it has an open ending and you ask yourself what may have happened. I believe the writer knows the human psychology very well.

Others here have commented enough on the plot, so rather than be repetitious I will focus on some of the themes. I was fortunate enough to catch 'Guy' the other night on the Sundance Channel. Having been inundated with commentary on reality television for some many years, I was not expecting to glean any new insights into the medium from this film. Much to my surprise and pleasure it seemed to really have something to say about the concept of "the gaze."

It is interesting to examine the film through the psychological lens of Lacan and also consider the gendered "politics of looking" so often spoken of in feminist theory. These concepts, I believe, are heavily present in the film. The reverse of the power dynamic alone (the female subject and the male object) in is truly fascinating and definitely makes it worth a viewing for those of you versed in feminist theory. It makes me wish I was still in college, so I could write a paper about it.

I strongly recomend that you don't even give this movie a chance. Just the camera shots alone are enough to make me sea sick. I think I know where UPN got the idea for "HOME MOVIES" and that is GUY. I think Brandon from "HOME MOVIES" could of done a lot better job than the woman behind the camera.

If you rent the movie fast forward the movie at least an hour's worth and then play. There's at least 3 minutes of interesting film if youre a guy.

2 thumbs down :-((((