Buzzard

Director Joel Potrykus hits the bull’s-eye when he says that Buzzard is like the result of a meeting between Freddy Kruger and Albert Camus. In a weird dark comedy and psychedelic horror hybrid, the American filmmaker mocks cultural models of rebellion. In Buzzard, Marty, a modern “rebellious man,” stuffs himself with fast food, tortures his neighbors with heavy metal, and formulates his perspective through brutal videogames. Marty also crusades against corporate reality. This modern Don Quixote from a dirty single apartment gradually stops differentiating reality from fiction and becomes hostage to his own whiplashed imagination. Potrykus’ raw and vulturine visual style works well to highlight the thickening theme of on-screen paranoia. Polished in every detail, Buzzard is an excellent culmination of the director’s animal trilogy, where the protagonists are outsiders with disturbed identities.