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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Matt Johnson again blends mock-documentary immediacy, movie-obsessed banter, and an escalating fiction-versus-reality conceit, with the same scrappy, unnervingly playful energy as The Dirties.
02
Why this pick
Its faux-documentary approach and deliberately ordinary teen texture create a similarly disturbing sense of proximity around alienation and school violence, handled with austere restraint.
03
Why this pick
A raw microbudget satire that also uses confrontational school-shooter imagery and deliberately rough form, though its far more exploitative tone makes it a less exact tonal match.
04
Why this pick
Its news-report simulation shares The Dirties’ unsettling use of documentary grammar to collapse distance between viewer and horrific hypothetical events.
05
Why this pick
This intimate faux-documentary horror builds dread through recorded fragments and a family’s incomplete awareness, echoing the uncomfortable realism and shifting viewer perspective of The Dirties.
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01 / THE STORY
The film opens with the main characters, Matt and Owen, making a movie about a gang of bullies and the revenge that two victimized students take on them. This project, “The Dirties”, contains references to a score of other movies such as ''Being John Malkovich'', ''Pulp Fiction'', and ''The Usual Suspects''. Matt is shown being bullied.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Matt
Owen
Mr. Bird
Krissy B.
