Synopsis
Because no one wants to be alone.
A documentarian funds a NYC doorman's Asian mail order bride in exchange for the right to film the experience.
2005 Directed by Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland
A documentarian funds a NYC doorman's Asian mail order bride in exchange for the right to film the experience.
Съпруга по пощата, Żona na zamówienie, Невеста по почте
Good evening and welcome fellow Children of Chaos.
This was on my Tubi watchlist for the longest time. Now I saw this and was like "Why was this on here, This isn't the kind of stuff I'd watch."
Huck Botko.
So a few year ago I decided to ensure my place in hell and watch all those stupid skits in that infamous video where a bunch of fake videos were showcased as real, and the biggest contributor was Huck Botko. A man who made a bunch of really awful videos where he pretended to feed his family gross shit, and a few people on here question if they are fake.
I hate to break this to you guys but Santa…
Mail Order Wife is one of the most mean spirited and ruthlessly nihilistic black comedies I have ever seen. It is a strange, cruel movie that takes great delight in parading around the ugly side of humanity.
To describe the plot would sort of give it away by design, so I'd say check this out if you want to watch something extremely unique and different. There are some genuinely disturbing moments in the film's first half hour or so, and again the "humor" is very bleak and uncomfortable for the most part so a heads up that it isn't for everyone.
Overall though beneath its veneer of disillusionment, it's a surprisingly thought-provoking comedy about the way people lie to each other when it comes to matters of sex, lust and loneliness.
The humor in the film's final act also reminds me somewhat of the good seasons of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, for fans of that series.
A weird mockumentary, but these types of movies should be weird. Give it a watchie! It might make you feel uncomfortable until you remind yourself it's not real (or is it? nah).
Adrian Martinez gives a remarkable performance as an incel version of Mia Farrow
As with all the other reviews on this, I was a bit confused at first. I found it in the documentary section and it definitely has you believing it is as such in the first fifteen minutes or so. It’s a film about gross men and little else.
A mockumentary that is so busy skewering its targets it completely forgets to be funny. I get what the filmmakers are doing here but there's dark comedy and then there's deeply unpleasant scene after deeply unpleasant scene of human exploitation without a glimmer of humour to leaven the pain.
“It’s not like there. There’s no malaria in Queens.”
From the half of Frat House that decidedly did not go on to win Oscars, comes a fake documentary about a lonely NYC doorman who orders a mail order bride named Lichi after becoming disillusioned with meeting people in a post 9/11 city landscape. If the intent was to make this a comedy, it’s a failure. I don’t think that’s the intention though, because comedic aspects seem to be an afterthought - the first joke is literally an hour in. That said, I think this is a very successful portrayal of exploitation, power dynamics and loneliness.
There are lots of interesting twists that set this into a totally different realm than anything…