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Shizopolis (1996) [The Criterion Collection #199] [ReUp]

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Date: 7 Mar 2015 15:17:00
Shizopolis (1996) [The Criterion Collection #199] [ReUp]

Shizopolis (1996)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:37:16 | Cover | 6,90 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
Genre: Art-house, Comedy | Criterion Collection #199

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Steven Soderbergh, Scott Allen, Betsy Brantley

Fletcher Munson has a doppelgänger in dentist Dr. Jeffrey Korchek. In his only starring performance to date, acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh inhabits both roles: Munson, onanistic corporate drone and speechwriter for New Age guru T. Azimuth Schwitters, and the swinging Korchek, Muzak enthusiast and lover to Munson’s disenchanted wife. Meanwhile, mad exterminator and part-time celebrity prima donna Elmo Oxygen seduces local housewives in secret code and plots against Schwitters. Placing the onus squarely on the viewer (“If you don’t understand this film, it’s your fault and not ours”), writer/director/editor/cameraman Soderbergh presents a deranged comedy of confused identity, doublespeak, and white-knuckled corporate intrigue, confirming his status as one of America’s most daring and unpredictable filmmakers.

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Schizopolis's interconnected storylines concern Fletcher Munson (Soderbergh), a nondescript employee of a Scientology-like motivational organization called Eventualism. Struggling with a speech he's consigned to write for the group's leader, T. Azimuth Schwitters (Mike Malone), Munson takes time out to masturbate in the office bathroom, has vivid fantasies during mundane conversations with co-workers, and drifts through a non-communicative relationship with his wife (Betsy Brantley).

Shizopolis (1996) [The Criterion Collection #199] [ReUp]

At the film's halfway point, Munson discovers that he has a doppelganger in Dr. Jeffrey Korchek (Soderbergh again), a perennially track-suit wearing dentist. Apparently slipping into Korchek's life, Munson realizes that his wife is having an affair with the dentist — or more to the point, he realizes that he's now having an affair with his own wife, since he's now Korchek. The film now follows Korchek, who's being leaned on by his brother to help with some sort of drug-related debt, as he falls hard for a patient (also Brantley) to whom he writes a hilarious, offensively honest love letter. The film eventually focuses again on Munson and then, in the final half hour, mostly on Munson's wife.

Shizopolis (1996) [The Criterion Collection #199] [ReUp]

To attempt to describe Schizopolis in too much detail is to go the way of madness, and it would spoil the surprises and challenges of the movie. Actors play multiple characters — or are they different aspects of the same character? — and often speak to each other in meaningless, rote phrases. Munsen's conversations with his wife consist entirely of descriptive expressions:

"Generic greeting."
"Generic greeting returned!"
"Imminent sustenance …?"
"Overly dramatic statement regarding upcoming meal."
"Oooh — false reaction indicating hunger and excitement!"

Shizopolis (1996) [The Criterion Collection #199] [ReUp]

A secondary character, an exterminator named Elmo Oxygen (David Jensen), speaks only in non sequitur phrases like "Nose army" and "Ambassador jumpsuit landmine," as do the women he with whom he has illicit affairs. And in the film's last segment, the characters played by Soderbergh speak in overdubbed Italian, Japanese, and French.

Shizopolis (1996) [The Criterion Collection #199] [ReUp]

It's Elmo, in fact, who offers the key to understanding Schizopolis near the very end of the film, buried within a speech full of gibberish: "I'm talking about perception and communication skills. Houseplant." Indeed, while Soderbergh honors two of his directing idols, David Lynch and Richard Lester, by mixing self-indulgent weirdness with wacky, sketch-comedy humor (he even honors Lester by giving his name to a character to dies early in the film), the fundamental theme of the picture concerns the subjective manner in which we perceive others and the ways in which we attempt (and fail) to communicate. Munson and his wife talk at each other in stock phrases, giving the illusion of communication but never really hearing each other; Elmo's conversations are deliberate nonsense; Munson's co-worker is called Nameless Numberhead Man, while the patient who inspires Korchek's desires is dubbed An Attractive Woman #2.

Shizopolis (1996) [The Criterion Collection #199] [ReUp]

Characters say what the listeners are thinking, rather than the expected platitudes (the funniest being a funeral service with the officiate intoning, "Lester Richards is dead — and aren't you glad it wasn't you? Don't you wish you felt something?") The theme is made clear when the focus shifts from Munson/Korchek to Munson's wife. Treated throughout the film as an object of (alternately) lust, dispassion, or annoyance by both men, her version of the movie's events is presented. We finally understand what she was saying, words that weren't understood when she spoke them earlier in the film. But we also see that she's every bit as insular as the men with whom she was attempting to communicate — Munson, Korchek, and a third lover, also played by Soderbergh, all literally speak foreign languages to her ears.

Shizopolis (1996) [The Criterion Collection #199] [ReUp]

Schizopolis begins with a pronouncement by Soderbergh that the film to follow is "the most important motion picture you will ever attend" and warning that "in the event that you find certain sequences or ideas confusing, please bear in mind that this is your fault, not ours. You will need to see the picture again and again until you understand everything." Tongue-in-cheek, yes, but not necessarily untrue. Okay, it may not be the most important movie you'll ever see — but it is a film that richly rewards the viewer who comes back for multiple viewings, a movie made by a brilliant filmmaker who could have possibly become just another nameless hack director if it wasn't for this funny, fantastical dip into the surreal.
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Shizopolis (1996) [The Criterion Collection #199] [ReUp]
Shizopolis (1996) [The Criterion Collection #199] [ReUp]

Special Features:
- New high definition digital transfer, approved by director Steven Soderbergh and enhanced for widescreen televisions
- English subtitles for deaf and hearing impaired
- Commentary track with Stephen Soderbergh
- Commentary track with producer John Hardy, actors Mike Malone and David Jensen, and sound mixer Paul Ledford
- Maximum Busy Muscle!
- Original theatrical trailer

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