SOMETHING IN THE DIRT
(January 2022)
“Well, a lot of things are still mysteries. You just don’t
expect to witness one on a sh!tty afternoon in your cheap apartment.”
Yes, another
Moorhead & Benson Film crash lands ‘round these parts…
“I mean,
what’s crazier? Believing every single coincidence you ever see or just
ignoring them all?”
In Something
in the Dirt, Levi (Justin Benson) has just moved into his “cheap” L.A. apartment,
when some strange phenomena start, drawing in neighbor John (Aaron Moorhead),
and resulting in both deciding to make a documentary to get everything on
record and hopefully, find an explanation along the way. (And maybe, make some
scratch too, if they can sell the doc to, oh, say, Netflix?)
“Well, why
can’t it be a group like the Freemasons or the Moose Lodge or… what’s the one
that’s on Discovery Channel all the time? It’s the Rose Croutons.”
“‘The Rose
Croutons’? The Rosicrucians?”
Moorhead and Benson’s latest--which, from a certain
perspective, is essentially their attempt to make The X-Files today--is a fascinating exploration of how people
impose their own meanings onto everything that surrounds them, and how, in
trying to solve the mysteries that face us, our own imperfections and
obsessions tend to obscure and tarnish what should otherwise be the purity of
the unknown and the unexplained.
“Stop being
paranoid. It’s weird.”
(Something in
the Dirt OS courtesy of impawards.com.)
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