Napoleon Dynamite (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #5 extract: Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Very amusing. A great exercise in eccentricity, weirdness and unconventional characterisation - all captured with a proficient directorial and cinematographic approach; it's shot well and it looks good. 

Whilst I don't love it as much as some would (considering that this is a cult classic) I enjoyed Napoleon Dynamite. The comedy is quite one-note and I probably wouldn't see myself watching it again, but aren't sorry for finally getting around to seeing it. On a final note, I suppose the greatest thing that this narrative has going for it is its capacity to project the strange, madcap and unconventional in a profoundly, and somehow, normal light. In such, by the end of this narrative, you don't have a clear grip on what is normal, what makes sense, who is a nut-job and how things should function in the world surrounding Napoleon. Instead, you just sit back as the credits roll with resolve, kinda happy knowing of this crazy place and its weird characters.