The Living Wake

I'm so glad I was obsessed with Jesse Eisenberg back in 2010, or else I may never have discovered this little gem of a film. It's been a while since I watched this, at least six years, and the last twenty minutes or so still make me veer wildly from crying to laughing and back again. Mostly crying, though. I love the weird little world that this movie exists in, and I didn't want to leave. I love the random musical numbers, and all the oddball characters. K. Roth Binew is such a obnoxious, rude, strange character, but at his core he's a just a man dealing with abandonment issues from an absentee father, family that doesn't understand or even like him, and the fear of dying unfulfilled. In that way he's such a relatable and sympathetic character, and I find myself so unexpectedly fond of him each time I watch this. The Living Wake is an absurd movie, yet weirdly touching. It's one of my all time favorites, and I wish more people knew about it.