This is NOT Smoke Signals 2. LOL. This is a bit running gag or inside thing, I think based on reality of not having rights to title and intellectual content of real OF film.. just a few clips shown with. Cody Lighfoot, "I am Little Viktor" obsessive quest to cement some imagined greater stardom than he had in the real film "Smoke Signals". By getting a script for a sequel with the original cast. Many do appear in "Hey, Viktor". But also being on a bender and trying fund (swindle) anyone he knew to find the project,
Complex film devices are used, though there are no flashbacks or dream sequence (I though it was going to go there) Cast was in the active narrative, some in a (first) screening that backfired badly, and in audience on on screen in a scene of a finalized movie. That 'near triumphal. Or redeeming final movie in a move had purposely jarring continuity and some serious parts and a part that was crazily Monty Python-ish. These parts bypassed the supposed screening audience in the film, and played to the real audience in theater.
I did not know really any background to this movie, nor anything of the actors. I had to look up info. Just a little while ago to confirm "Smoke Signals" was a real movie. I saw this tonight Thurs. 8 June at Tribeca Film Festival. Introduced as a world premiere. Perhaps it was not. It does have some Canadian sensibilities, and I don't mean humor such as in Kids In The Hall (90s TV comedy) etc. Descended from Brit humor.
Cody, Hannah, Simon and a couple of others and some crew were on hand. Many fans and insiders there and I could not understand the shouting, inside jokes and few 4 letter words tossed around on their entry. Constant F words in the movie.
It is nearly raw, very over the top at times, slap you hard humor. Docu-style, some improv. The 4th wall is gone most of the time. Most of audience screamed with laughter. I was so stunned at a_hole , self-destructive character Cody played so well so familiarly that I did not quite get the laughs out. We do have a bit of him naked BTW. Cody as a character and seemingly as a man has nothing to hide emotionally or physically. Everyone really inhabited their characters very well. I did find it long and as I knew no background at all to any of it, though it could get serious dark deadly perhaps turning on a dime from any humor at all. That was a sources of some tension. Is it a fault of film created of 2 personal visions, and being a non-Hollywood production, or it's strength? I recommend to many of you.
After all, with Q&A at end, I more deeply appreciated what this was about. I wish I had recorded a quote they explained personal for this raw humor for healing in the Native Community, letting out some of the pain, by bringing some fictionalized characters and situations to life.
Complex film devices are used, though there are no flashbacks or dream sequence (I though it was going to go there) Cast was in the active narrative, some in a (first) screening that backfired badly, and in audience on on screen in a scene of a finalized movie. That 'near triumphal. Or redeeming final movie in a move had purposely jarring continuity and some serious parts and a part that was crazily Monty Python-ish. These parts bypassed the supposed screening audience in the film, and played to the real audience in theater.
I did not know really any background to this movie, nor anything of the actors. I had to look up info. Just a little while ago to confirm "Smoke Signals" was a real movie. I saw this tonight Thurs. 8 June at Tribeca Film Festival. Introduced as a world premiere. Perhaps it was not. It does have some Canadian sensibilities, and I don't mean humor such as in Kids In The Hall (90s TV comedy) etc. Descended from Brit humor.
Cody, Hannah, Simon and a couple of others and some crew were on hand. Many fans and insiders there and I could not understand the shouting, inside jokes and few 4 letter words tossed around on their entry. Constant F words in the movie.
It is nearly raw, very over the top at times, slap you hard humor. Docu-style, some improv. The 4th wall is gone most of the time. Most of audience screamed with laughter. I was so stunned at a_hole , self-destructive character Cody played so well so familiarly that I did not quite get the laughs out. We do have a bit of him naked BTW. Cody as a character and seemingly as a man has nothing to hide emotionally or physically. Everyone really inhabited their characters very well. I did find it long and as I knew no background at all to any of it, though it could get serious dark deadly perhaps turning on a dime from any humor at all. That was a sources of some tension. Is it a fault of film created of 2 personal visions, and being a non-Hollywood production, or it's strength? I recommend to many of you.
After all, with Q&A at end, I more deeply appreciated what this was about. I wish I had recorded a quote they explained personal for this raw humor for healing in the Native Community, letting out some of the pain, by bringing some fictionalized characters and situations to life.
