Dinner with Joseph Goebbels

Ok here we go we start on the streets of New York with a

mopping 36 year old out of work actor/director he looks much older. Amazingly we find out he has a girlfriend but we never meet her. Dose she really exist? He won’t stop moaning about his life with his internal monologue which seems to last for ever. We eventually get to the restaurant. The band plays lazy jazz while he waits for Andre to arrive.

Andre arrives and they take there seats. He’s still moaning internally. When will Andre speak?

Finally after what seems like forever we get to hear off Andre. At first impressions Andre is an ageing hippie that had to much money and time on his hands so he went on a spirt quest!

At least he’s a more interesting character. Wait a second Is Andre an closest nazi? Maybe...

What the fuck really happened at this beehive? was it really just a drug fuiled orgy in the forest that caused Andre to have a stroke and lose the feeling in his left arm

So many questions:

What kind of name is Yendrush?

Raspberry soup?

God dam hippies!

The nazi thing again!

Some shit about the little prince a story that Andre was supposed to make into a play but was to high on acid to finish

Why the fuck would you go to the Sahara desert with a Japanese monk? And why would you eat sand? Apparently when they returned home The monk massaged his wife with his feet and then proceeded to take advantage of his family

Wow! who would of thought that talking about people getting strangled on a submarine would kill a conversation so fast!

Andre has a thing about flags apparently “someone made him” a Tibetan Swashtica flag which he then proceeded to give to a polish Jewish woman! But not before he took it out at a party and made his wife throw up. God dam Andre that’s cold!

Thankfully the flag get burnt! Andre the hippie is in full force now he’s talking about giant cauliflowers and talking with insects. I think he was tripping his balls off on acid the whole time.

Halloween round André’s consist of writing your last will and testament being stripped naked and tortured followed by being berried alive and dancing. Man knows how to throw a party!

Aww now Andre is all depressed. He seen a lot of death recently and his mom’s doctor was the absolute worst. She died not long ago. He hates himself and what he did with his life. Now he can’t stand boring people he used to like and mourns them when he breaks his ties.

He dose not look wonderful even though everyone said he did!

Finally the other guy gets some lines and they both come to the conclusion that hostility is just spawned from previous life experiences.

The waiter goes all judgemental on them!

So the other guy who is an actor/director and he’s confused by people and the way they can be so callous towards people when telling jokes. Maybe that why he’s been out of work for so long.

God they hate his mothers doctor!

Now Andre is back to his hippie dippy shit again and on about some world class mathematician called Brock. Who apparently sees and speaks to mythical creatures and has had an audience with the Greek Demi god Pan.

What the fuck is brock tripping on I think Andre spiked his drink!

Now electric blankets are bad because it distracts you from the reality of being cold. No shit Sherlock! Comfort can be dangerous thing according to Andre. Also Chicken is bad if you eat to much of it you’ll starve!

Now Andre is comparing himself slave owner because he has money and the door man at his hotel is poor. Ok now we’re getting to the good stuff he wanted to use a real human severed head in a play to give the play meaning! Let’s hope he doesn’t go back to directing anytime soon.

Way to kick a guy when he’s down on his luck. Yes Andre is at it again anything you do in the theatre is just adding to the problem of reality and the reality is we’re all robots. Anything you do now is just contributing to the machine. Andre is not a big fan of capitalism. He thinks it’s brainwashing on a global scale. Of course he dose.

In the future we will be robots!

Did Andre start a cult?

Is this Scientology?

The other guy is Struggling to get to the point a bit. He’s trying to say but why not just enjoy your lot in life and be comfortable. Is it so wrong to be happy with the mundane? He dose not believe in fate science can be tested and experiments can be repeated.

Andre say science is a magical force and uses Nazis agin to make the point that even science can be wrong! I’m not sure how well that holds up but moving swiftly on.

New talking points include: Are we all just acting while we are all just dead on the inside?

Should we all just act on our feelings or should we let logic guide us... or should we use a happy medium

Are we just dead robots acting on impulse?

This is essentially the end of the film other than some nice piano music and a taxi ride home through the streets of New York.

In conclusion I some what enjoyed the acting though I found it hard to believe he had a girl friend. The plot well there wasn’t really one to speak of. The film as a whole was ok I wouldn’t say I hated it but I never want another dinner with Andre either.

The message I took from the film is that if you look at yourself and realise you’ve become a robot living in a dream like fog. Forever acting on autopilot you should learn what it means to be humans by becoming a closet nazi and eat sand in the middle of the Sahara desert with a Japanese monk.

2.5 out of 5