Starts with a bang, literally and figuratively, as Radu Jude aims to provoke his audience more directly than ever before with Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn. Deploying a loose narrative framework that centers around a school teacher and her sex tape that inexplicitly gets leaked onto the internet, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a pointed critique of modernity and contemporary culture which manages to be part farcical comedy, part intellectual investigation into the contradictions and hypocrisies that plague society at large. Irreverent humor is used to investigate the pernicious nature of the fascist impulse, detailing the pervasive ways in which it infects the social arena through both subtlety and abrupt force. From puritanical repression to more overt modes of social suppression, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn uses its distinct formal structure to reflect on the absurdity of modernity and our collective self-indulgence. The past and the future are largely rejected or ignored in our collective consciousness unless they provide economic utility in the form of commodification or political utility in the form of social control through skewed historiography. Perhaps a little beguiling in its structure but Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is Radu Jude at his most irreverent, a thoroughly entertaining film with farcical qualities that aims to elucidate the absurdity of modern life.
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