Rubber

2010 "Are you TIRED of the expected?"
5.7| 1h22m| R| en| More Info
Released: 09 November 2010 Released
Producted By: ARTE France Cinéma
Country: France
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.rubberfilm.com/
Synopsis

A group of people gather in the California desert to watch a "film" set in the late 1990s featuring a sentient, homicidal car tire named Robert. The assembled crowd of onlookers watch as Robert becomes obsessed with a beautiful and mysterious woman and goes on a rampage through a desert town.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Lightdeossk Captivating movie !
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Randrew Getting past the possessed auto tire issue, an interesting plot with cheesy acting. It could have been much better with more defined character development and stronger story line.
Style_is_Substance What can really be said about Rubber? Those calling this film ironically good, so bad it's good, or a B-movie, are completely mistaken. While very different films, Rubber is to the 2010's what Monty Python and the Holy Grail is to the 1970's. Part of the humor is found within Rubber is through self-aware meta jokes designed to troll the audience while making both subtle and obvious commentary on both cinema and the audience -- that is both the average moviegoers and those who criticize them, both appealing and criticizing the sensibilities of western society in the 21st century.Despite being a film that has a sentient killer tire as its protagonist, the tire is simultaneously irrelevant and relevant to the film's themes and focus, as it plays into the flawed concept established in the beginning monologue about "no reason." Rather than the tire being the most important character, it is the spectators and the Sheriff orchestrating the "movie." These sequences criticize the way a film is constructed and then how it is perceived by different people, all of which seem to have their own view of how a film should play out, despite for the most part subscribing to group think and guzzling whatever is before them; there is a scene where they all gobble up a poisoned turkey symbolic of audiences eating up whatever they see so long as they are mildly amused.The man with the glasses and tie surely represents the business side of the film industry, the side that will make any type of film so long as it turns a profit and appeals to the shallow general public; there is a scene where he even literally steals money from them as they are sleeping. The opening monologue is extremely flawed which plays into the subtext of the film; to emphasize his philosophy, the sheriff brings up the worst examples to validate his points, for example, he indirectly states a Jewish pianist has no reason to hide as a bum while his city is occupied by Nazis like in The Pianist, there is no reason behind it. Perhaps this monologue represents people applying their own close-minded philosophy to art, rejecting the author's intentions, and making up fallacy driven arguments.The wrap it up on the social commentary the film even ends with a direct statement against Hollywood as if they are to blame for films today. Despite the subtext, the film works quite well on its own, an absurdist and surreal story of spectators watching a film within a film play out from afar. But is any of this good? Yes, and largely it is due to its humor, which will vary depending on who you are.
carloledesma From the opening scene of the sheriff explaining to the audience that there are things in this world that happen for no reason (most of his explanation is either factually incorrect or highly idiotic), this movie however proves surprisingly that it does have reason to exist. As easily as this movie could have been written off as a movie about a tire on a killing spree. Rubber's underlying message about how independent filmmakers struggle with the big box office studios and audiences who are only fascinated with big explosions, provides a quirky and twisted movie about how a tire (indie filmmaker) would use their newly acquired psychokinetic powers.
arkhambat-513-170795 A perfectly good idea ruined by over-explanation and "look how clever we are" winks. Good jokes don't give the punchline away before the setup, great art doesn't demand you read a thesis to walk you through it. The introduction and frame story here did nothing but detract from the perfectly acceptable conceptual element of this film. It feels like a "Mulholland Drive" or "Lost Highway" if David Lynch had filmed an additional 45 minutes of footage to both pad out an inconsistent idea as well as spoon-feed his audience the point he was making. If the point is "just because", SHOW it. Don't tell us straight out. Let us see/experience it through the visuals and story. Take the idea and run with it, don't falter and just blurt it out. What's the point in watching the rest? Overall: a terrible failure that could have been something great.