Bad Boy Bubby (2005)

Australian writer-director Rolf De Heer's 1993 semi-comic satire, Bad Boy Bubby, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival for its sometimes savage vision of a modern society in which a Kaspar Hauser-like figure suddenly appears. Nicholas Hope is masterful as 35-year-old Bubby, who has been shut within his corpulent mother's airless apartment all his life, enduring sexual exploitation and mom's lies about the outside world being poisonous. When Bubby's estranged father turns up, the boy-man seizes an opportunity to flee, and embarks on a dark journey to encounter the unknown. De Heer keeps his innocent hero moving from situation to situation, like a great blank slate (think of Peter Sellers in Being There) absorbing and repeating whatever he sees and hears. Meanwhile, the people who meet him perceive exactly what they want to perceive. De Heer may be on a Swiftian mission to underscore humanity's corruption, but Hope is brilliant at the more subtle job of constructing, using few tools, Bubby's increasingly complex inner life. --Tom Keogh Amazon.com

Bad Boy Bubby : All He Needed Was Love

Bad Boy Bubby is a drama,dark comedy that was created in 1994 in Australia.This twisted movie covers taboo subjects such as incest, child abuse, blasphmy and animal cruelty.

Bubby is a 35 year old man who has been trapped in a two room slum and has never seen the outside world. He lives with his mother, Flo a disgusting woman who prevents Bubby from going outside by telling him that he will die instantly from the posionus gases in the air. One day, Bubby's father came back to the house 35 year after he left. Both Bubby and his father wer astonished to see each other. Bubby's father is a conman who dresses up like a priest. When he first met Bubby he seemed friendly twards Bubby and insisted Bubby to call him "Pop". However, as the movie progressed, it turned out the father was an agressive drunk. He beats Bubby and both him and Flo take turns making fun of him. Eventually, Pop kicks Bubby out of the house in to the outside world. At first Bubby is scared that he will die from the air. But after realizing that the air won't kill him, he decides to explore the outside world. Yet,Bubby has no morals and he doesn't know what to expect.Durring his journey, he meets some bad people such as Salvation Army girl who seduces him, the traffic Cop who beats Bubby up and then leaves by the side of the road and A group of woman who kicks him. He also gets in to bad situations such as going to jail, getting kicked out numerous times from stores and resteraunts and having no place to live. Bubby also finds out that most of the people that he has met judges him by the way he acts, not by who he is. He realizes that people think that he is a bad person so, Bubby tries to act like Pop. Bubby thinks if he acts like Pop, people will accept him. Eventually, he finds good people who accept him the way he is. He become friends with the members of a pub rock band that turn him into his lead singer and he meets Angel, a very kind nurse who looks after people with physical difficulites, and they both eventually become lovers.


It's pretty sad how Bubby is treated. He was abused by his parents and was trapped in a two room apartment. When he finally becomes free, he gets mistreated outside because they see him as a bad person when really, he just wants someone to love him back. Good that thing he did find some people wo care for him and love him because if he didn't find thoes people, he probably wouldn't survive in the outside world.




December 29, 2008

Hang On To Your Clingwrap

Aussie redemption story about an emotionally retarded 35-year old man learning the ropes in society. Oh, some murder, gratuitous nudity, and incest thrown in for excitement. The easily unnerved need not apply. It is everyone's duty to think God out of existence. April 14, 2008

If you love animal torture you will love this one

If you are one who enjoys watching small animals abused, tortured and killed (and millions do) then I would heartly recommend this title. If tying animals down so they are not able to defend themselves is not the kind of entertainment you enjoy, then avoid this one.

Just because some people don't want other people being entertained by sadistic acts doesn't mean it's wrong! I hate pets and very much enjoy seeing them scream and try to flee before being killed! This is a great movie! July 28, 2007

a fun loving romp!!

Bad Boy Bubby is one of the finest feel good movies ive ever seen. Bubby's joyous comedic romp through life makes us all sit back and say "hey, lets live a little!!" boy, i laughed so much my sides nearly split. a real hoot! January 11, 2007

Not Quite Like Anything You've Ever Seen

I saw this DVD years ago during a trip to England, long before it made its way to this side of the pond. This is not like anything you've ever seen and is deeply worthy of the cult status it has around the world. Your jaw will drop in the first minutes of the film and not make its way back closed until long after it's over. And it will be a ride straight through. It's incredible and audacious (as are all of Aussie Rolf de Heer's works). Its sharply funny, deeply disturbing and a great piece of filmmaking. Watch it, but not on a first date! January 10, 2007

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