Fuckland

Fuckland is a funny movie with incredibly low production values and an interesting idea. It is promoted as a documentary about an Argentine man who wants to impregnate an English woman in order that Argentines can take over the Falklands by stealth. Most of the movie is shot in hidden camera mode and there is shots of the main actor walking around the Falklands supposedly finding an English woman to knock up.

The confusing thing about this movie is that although the shots of the normal people on the island are realistic, it doesn't make sense that the filmmaker could film himself having sex with a woman using a sabotaged condom and then sell the doco to networks. Of course when one check IMDb we can see that the women he "has sex" with is an actor as well, and the documentary is not really a documentary, but a movie masquerading as a doco.

The question that I have afterwards however is what was real and what wasn't. Did all the people the main actor spoke to know that he was filming? Did the guy really hate the English who live on the Falklands? How much of the dialogue was scripted?

Overall it was an interesting movie, but it brought up a number of questions that will probably never be answered.

I started watching this movie a bit after it started. I guess I might have missed 20 minutes, maybe less. It said docudrama in the onscreen guide...so I wasn't sure if it was real or a drama made to look like a documentary. Or maybe it was a dramatic documentary? I was buying it, believing it was all real. It's not at all exciting...it's actually pretty boring watching the jiggly camera work (I guess it was a hidden camera or something most of the time?) and seeing this boring story play out, with a lead character who is clearly insane...wanting to impregnate a woman to start the argentine line of heritage or whatever his plan is. Tho, it was fairly boring, it's one of those movies you cannot take your eyes off of. I wanted to start watching something else...I was waiting for the next movie on Sundance Channel, but I couldn't turn the channel...and ended up watching till the end. I HAD to force myself to get up and check this site to make sure it was fake...because, if it were real, I would be sick by this guy's behavior with, what seems like, a nice girl who seems to be falling for his crap.

The two lead actors do really nice jobs...until the final scene where Camila tells him the stuff on his camera, they seemed real and honest. During that scene, it was obvious that she's an actress and it was all fake...from what I saw on this site, I still wasn't 100% sure (I only read the summary on the main page.)

It's an okay movie to see once...but, only because it keeps ahold of you. It's not a good movie overall- just one of those rare things that keeps you watching just to see what weird stuff will happen next, and how these people that seem so real yet so fake could do the things they do (fall so quickly into having sex and starting this relationship and all.)

I guess the filmmaker had his point, and he made it...or maybe he was trying to make entertainment, and he failed...either way- not great, but not the worst either.

I will confess that once I started watching this movie, it had a hold on me that forced me to watch it through to its conclusion. Quite possibly this was some latent voyeuristic tendency in me that wanted to see our hero get it on with his victim, or maybe fascination that they got funding to make, distribute, and show this film that kept me searching it for merit, or possibly some bizarre wish-fulfillment fantasy that there might be a point at the end of all the pain. But no such luck.

So you are warned to not start watching it in the first place, lest the same thing happen to you. There's nothing here worth wasting your hour and a half on.

The first-person mockumentary and the schtick about Fabian's "quest" to impregnate women of the Falklands comes out even more like a sophomoric (maybe Freshman - high school Freshman, that is) film student project than you might imagine. The effect ends up being both sneering at the local inhabitants (who, other than the two professional leads, are in fact real people) as well as engaging in rather disgusting sexual politics (no matter whether you take it all literally or symbolically, it's pointless and sexist).

The reason I ended up watching it all the way is the same reason that once one starts to pick at a scab, there's an irresistable fascination of continuing to do so until it's completely off, even when you know it's bad for you. You just want to see what happens.

In the end, this is rather dishonest filmmaking, because it seems ultimately to have no moral center, no elucidation of the local political situation, nor any place in the type of political-sexual-personal film universe a la Goddard. In short it's got nothing to say and spends a long time pretending it does. Smug would be the one-word tagline.

I'd suggest the filmmakers rent 'Waiting for Guffman' a few times, or hell, even 'Blair Witch Project' if they want to pursue the schtick with a little more style and a little more genuine emotion. Or at least entertainment value.

I watched "Fuckland" a long time ago. I lied if I'd tell that I remember it in detail; what I remember most vividly is the irritation it provoked me and the feeling of a total waste of precious money and time, not only my time and money invested in watching the movie but also the director's.

Supposedly, "Fuckland" is a critic of Argentinians, presenting us (I'm an Argentinian too) as little people who take credit for and even boast about petty, ridiculous victories, and think we're the best thing that God (who is also an Argentinian) created. I'm not going to argue that. It's probably a true statement about a quite big part of the population (the part I despise, by the way). And even if this weren't true, that's not my point. The worst sin "Fuckland" committed was to express such a statement about its own director.

The continuous impression I received was that the director was too busy trying to impress us for sneaking a camera inside the islands to worry about making a good (even a mediocre) movie. Many of the takes made with a hidden camera are pointless. The director chooses to show off with a silly edition of old war takes and his own ones. And there's no plot at all.

Moreover, this movie proudly presents a Dogme certificate before the opening titles, only to disrespect its principles afterwards (for example, by including the director in the credits - another sign of his pride?).

I found the movie offensive, not as an Argentinian, but as a watcher. I felt underestimated. "Fuckland" is simply one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

I saw this film the other night on the Sundance Channel and was completely into it. I couldn't change the channel and had to see what happened. I live with an Argentinean so the concept of this film was intriguing. And I know how and why the Falkland Island invasion in 1982 angers natives of Argentina. So the idea of a native visiting the Falklands to impregnate locals of the island in order to create new Argentine bloodlines and, in a way, recapture the islands, was original, interesting, amusing and also disturbing. It was disgustingly voyeuristic watching this man manipulate this woman in order to just have sex with her and get her pregnant. But when it was over I noticed that the two leads were actually actors and not "real". After some research I found out that this film was a "mock"- documentary and not real at all. Needless to say I was angered to learn of this. Still, if the filmmakers' goal was to fool us then they succeeded. However, if this film had been real it would have had more of an impact on me.