Ghostbox Cowboy (2018)

Ghostbox Cowboy: Directed by John Maringouin. With David Zellner, Specialist, Robert Longstreet, Vincent Xie. A dullard Texas entrepreneur reinvents himself as a cowboy in China’s tech wild west, but finds himself at the mercy of corrupt American expats looking to reinvent him once more.

“Advice: donu0026#39;t go see this movie if youu0026#39;re looking for Something like That Thing Youu0026#39;ve Seen Before; *this is not that thing*. Donu0026#39;t go see this movie, in other words, if youu0026#39;re nervous about things like u0026quot;Clearly Delineated Plot Structureu0026quot; and/or get overly hung up about things like u0026quot;Strictly Adhered-To Genre Conventionsu0026quot; — if you do, well, youu0026#39;ll have only yourself to blame.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGo if you want to feel something new in cinema for the first time in a very long time; go if you want to laugh hysterically (if sporadically)… at the very moment youu0026#39;re feeling a vague sense of horrible foreboding that this film might actually somehow be a documentary that was sent back from the future.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBecause this is a breathtaking and utterly novel piece of cinema — itu0026#39;s as if a post-Repo Man concept by Alex Cox was written up by George Saunders… and then re-written by a coked-up, paranoid, fever-dreaming Craig Baldwin… and then handed over to the Yes Men to improv, and thereby render even more astonishing. (And yet donu0026#39;t misunderstand me via that mash-up: thereu0026#39;s *nothing* derivative about this film.)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhether you ultimately decide you donu0026#39;t need a thing like this in your life (like some of the low ratings would suggest) or, like me, find it instead a Cinematic Hope Rejuvenator, one thing is certain: the whole of it is like nothing else youu0026#39;ve seen.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo, up to you: wanna be first to the party, and anticipate you kidsu0026#39; reverence for this film by about 15-20 years? Or wanna memorialize your head-scratching and confusion here with a negative review? :)”