What is the film 'The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared' like?
Imagine you are David Bowie and you're strapped into a chair in front of a wall of tv monitors just like 'The Man Who Fell To Earth'.
One of the channels is showing 'Forrest Gump'. Stupid is as stupid does. You know the one - village idiot gets mixed up with world events and changes our understanding of history. Imagine that but with the village pyromaniac nutter instead.
Another channel is showing the latest BBC Four Scandinavian import. It's about an unlikeable detective who sits in his car a lot and fails to solve anything.
Another shows 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. But not the film. It's the crappy, short-lived tv series version of it. It's about an unconvincing Swedish biker gang who lose a suitcase of money belonging to a cockney gangster. Where do they come up with these crazy plots?
On another screen there is a repeat of 'Last Of The Summer Wine'. This week the elderly gents try to move a corpse along the rail tracks without anyone noticing. Hilarity ensues.
A documentary about elephants on another channel.
And finally there is the reality show - "Hello, I'm Zany!!!" - full of those eccentric characters you don't see anywhere outside of a creative writing workshop.
It's like watching all of that at the same time. It's a mess of styles but strangely dull. It has no heart, only just stays the right side of annoying and seemed particularly vacuous for something with literary origins. I haven't read the book but I can safely say to you...read the book instead.
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