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What Did Jack Do? (2017)

Mystery | 17 minutes
2,42 97 votes

Genre: Mystery / Comedy

Duration: 17 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: David Lynch

Stars: Jack Cruz, David Lynch and Toototabon

IMDb score: 6,4 (17.086)

Releasedate: 8 November 2017

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What Did Jack Do? plot

In a locked train station, a detective (David Lynch) interrogates a tormented monkey. The monkey is suspected of committing a murder.

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mjk87 (moderator films)

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No idea what this was. The idea was probably better than the execution. This looks a bit like a gimmick, but the whole film then relies on it without really becoming enjoyable. Visually boring too, and okay, just weird. Even for its very short length, this thing dragged on too long. It is somewhat intriguing, but that is about all there is to say. 1.5*.

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I have no idea if David Lynch did it on purpose, but 'WHAT DID JACK DO?' (2017) has exactly the right randomness for internet humor. For an extra surreal layer, the video was one big 'aha' moment, because I have encountered almost everything before in one-liners, memes, and GIFs. It is all certainly unsettling: with that image of a monkey with a human mouth in an archaic film noir setting, where the animal is interrogated by the director himself without ever finding out what it did wrong. You could probably glean something from it about auteur cinema (a director in a critical conversation with himself) or a psychoanalytic reading on guilt in the subconscious. But honestly, 'WHAT DID JACK DO?' (2017) doesn't invite you to try to fathom it, because the strangeness is so clearly constructed as an end in itself. The short film is pretentious and off-putting in a way that makes it seem meaningful, yet consistently fails to offer a key to fathoming it. It could just as easily be hot air from a director who gets away with it anyway.

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ZAP!

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This is really awful. I initially gave it a 1.5 out of leniency, but in retrospect, I can't think of anything positive about this 'film' experience. In other work, Lynch himself can sometimes be funny, but here it just doesn't work at all.

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