Director Crispin Glover teams with screenwriter Steven C. Stewart for this surreal semi-autobiographical feature detailing cerebral palsy sufferer Stewart's remarkable life and many love affairs. A semi-sequel to Glover's shocking directorial debut, What Is It? (2005), It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine opens with Stewart lying helplessly on the hospital floor. As he is being transported back to his bed, Stewart embarks on an inward journey in which his suave charm proves irresistible to the ladies.
Though his imaginary sexual conquests allow Stewart a welcome opportunity to live out his many erotic fantasies, the unshakable frustration of being an eternal outcast soon causes his actions to take an unexpectedly dark turn. It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine made its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
It's one of the most queasy-making and confrontational films of the year, in which a deliberately artless presentation...takes the sting out of some extremely unruly content.
The statement Stewart makes in his script-- that handicapped people can not only be as sensitive as everyone else, but just as horrible -- is made eloquent, if bizarre, via Glover and Brothers' otherworldy vision.
Entirely set-bound and featuring dramatic lighting, deep shadows and such archaic effects as rear projection, the film has the look and feel of an old Hollywood movie -- but there's never been a film quite like this one.
IT IS FINE! allows an outsider's plight to define the mood and give significance to the art. Yet it's hard to take that endeavor seriously when the movie operates under the guise of exploitation.
To say the film is weird would be cliché, it's way beyond that the film drew laughs and gasps from the audience. The odd thing about it all -- it works.
Better when you hear the explanation of what the heck you just saw, but points off for creepy graphic sex scenes between many girls and a cerebral palsy man. Yikes.
January 27, 2008
Curtis Lilly
Super Reviewer
This is the middle piece of what is supposed to be a trilogy. The script was written by Steven Stewart, who also plays the title character. Which would be great except, and I'll be blunt here--Stewart didn't really write a compelling narrative. A man with cerebal palsey has sex with, and then proceeds to kill, numerous
interchangeable women. Nobody's character is really developed enough to really get involved in the story. I'm still curious to see what Crispin Glover does with the final installment of this trilogy, but I hope he returns more to the aesthetic and tone of "What Is It?"
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