Review of Monkey Dust

Monkey dust strikes me as something that only a person with the mentality of a 15-year old could enjoy. The commercialistic, corruption and capitalistic themes that come up are overly obvious, thus loosing the touch of hyperbolisation, because the whole show is so over the top, you expect every frame of it to be exactly what it is. The reoccurring characters are one-sided, and have no depth, for they do the same thing over and over again. The guy, who never gets what he wants and is watched, the middle-aged man who comes back to his wife, and tells her that he did something, and then she points it out that it's the plot of a song/show/book/movie, and then he admits to doing something like "being a cum-dumpster in a anonymous bukkake", the child with the father hating mother-divorcée, the paedofinder general, and others do the same thing over and over again, and sadly, it becomes boring after the first witnessing. Also, oftenly the "joke" is stretched out for the sake of showing how horrific and macabre everything around them is, but with the first part of the joke(and the remaining part of it) overinflated, the show gets lost in the concept of shock. To introduce shock, no matter if it is considering culture/nature/greed/etc, you need contrast. Example - Baraka. In monkey dust, the point is, I guess, to show people that the world is wicked, and everyone is screwed up in their own way. Sadly, there is no contrast, and the viewer gets used to the setting, gets used to the fact that everything will go wrong, that everyone will be cruel, that babies will curse, that children will die, and that lie,rape,sodomy,burglary will rule the day, and no suffering will be shown. The idea is to show, again, I guess, that the public is blindly dominated by the onslaught of different media, thus no reaction is gotten from it when introduced to a stupid commercialistic concept, but this idea is again, overinflated, and it just seems that the people are better off like this, unsuspecting, unknowing. With no contrast, we don't get the shock. With no knowledge of what is good and what is bad we cannot laugh at the bad and see that all light has gone. In short - overrated, one sided, no depth, reoccurring theme, no variety, no plot.