“DOGE Days Afternoon” hits the screens at the French River Film Festival in New Jersey tomorrow.
It is the tale, and a woeful one at that, about “an off-centre man” a renowned industrialist Horatio Alger, Moron Tusk (Tony Tesla) holding the United States hostage by destroying its governmental apparatus for the pure pleasure of exercising his destructive power with gay abandon. With the blessing of a rogue president, Oran Crapaud (Zane Zempic),he rampages unchecked closing down governmental agencies paralyzing a country masking his destructive delights with rationalizations of efficiency replete with comparisons of the entire governmental bureaucracy as corrupt and fraudulent convincing himself and his tag team of monkey see monkey do Pubican Party lackies of his righteous mission of propelling the United States into the “Septic Tank Age” where darkness, must and sewage permeates the spirit of the United States.
Tesla, as Tusk, is brilliant conveying credibility and madness in the same breath yet like the amateur bank robber Al Pacino in “Dog Day Afternoon” his soul is wreaked with confusion despite the apparent “aura of correctness”.
The torrid love interest of Tesla, Suzy Larue (Cloudly Daniels) a former hostess at a satanic pizza parlour in Washington D.C., illustrates Tusk thrives on domination. Forgetting Larue’s birthday is exemplary of his depravity.
Reminiscent of the 2023 British film “Zone of Interest”, “DOGE Days Afternoon” feasts on the concept that the destructive force of pure evil is simply a way of life for Tusk without him realizing he is the poster boy of evil. The theme of “DOGE Days Afternoon” is destruction of communities and families in the name of a contrived and fictional ideology masked by the concept of the public good.
The directorial debut here of Ronny Runthauser, a former Fox News custodian, is a confused disaster for the most part. We are puzzled why a plane crash killing dozens of innocent passengers serves as a very bad taste gleeful justification to dismantle the Federal Aviation Agency. Tusk derives power from negativity. Leech on the negativity like a remora to a shark and Tusk is there exploiting it. Runthauser fails to connect the DOGE dots as the reason for creation of a national paralysis is a justification for a seizure of power by you know who. If at first he didn’t succeed try again!
Runthauser has successfully created a study of Tusk, a man who fights “corruption and fraud” being morally corrupt and fraudulent himself although one questions if this is by accident or intentional.
Whether this film goes further than the French River, New Jersey is anyone’s guess. SPOOF Culture has received word the Grand Council of MAGA is debating whether to boycott the movie, have Runthauser arrested for treason or simply to burn down any theatre screening the film in the spirit of Kristallnacht in a bid to make America Great Again in the Septic Tank Age.
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