Kaboom (2010)

Kaboom: Directed by Gregg Araki. With Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida. A sexually “undeclared” college freshman’s clairvoyant/prophetic dreams are the first sign that something very strange is going on involving his class-mates — with him at the center.

“Since other reviewers of Kaboom have mentioned Donnie Darko and Southland Tales, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Polanski, Hitchcock, and Craven I might point out that the character, Smith is introduced as film student who is actually studying u0026quot;Un Chien Andalouu0026quot; by those naughty twenty-somethings Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Our wiki friends inform us that u0026quot;The film has no plot in the conventional sense of the word. The chronology of the film is disjointed….. It uses dream logic in narrative flow that can be described in terms of then-popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes.u0026quot; Sound familiar? Chien was essentially a student film but one might say that it has had some staying power.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI liked Kaboom but it was certainly a bit silly, especially toward the end. About as silly as a lobster telephone. And if characters were continually waking out of dreams (and being interrupted during u0026quot;spankingu0026quot; sessions), perhaps that was a hint to the viewer about where the film was coming from…..”