This film probably has the strangest dialogue of any film I’ve ever seen while also being insanely witty — emphasis on the insane. The film also doesn’t even try to be coherent. It is a masterpiece but also says nothing, but only ends up feeling okay — all at the same time. It is everything and nothing. The thing this film nails probably better than any film is POV. We are truly in the minds of these characters and how they perceive the world. This gives you vertigo if you try to stand on solid ground, because the ground here is not solid. It’s unstable and quaking even when you feel like you are just standing still. It is also SO of the early/mid ‘90s. I feel like so many visuals of the film could have been played over Toad the Wet Sprocket or Beastie Boys songs and played on MTV and it’d work. This is especially true with the sped up car scenes. There are so many laugh out loud funny moments, but a lot of times these things are just sequesters. Everything here is just bombastic, chaotic and schizophrenic (as suggested in the title).
