I don't know if I would ever recommend this film to somebody who isn't a filmmaker. It's far too easy to see this film as nothing more than pointless and depressing if you aren't paying close attention to the way everything is presented on camera. There's this constant disconnect between the actions of our main characters and the characters themselves. For instance, there are many shots of the family eating together but all of them are trained on their hands…

guys the monkey love experiments fandom is dying like this review if you're a true monkey love experiments fan

Also WOW this shit is based on a real psychology experiment involving monkeys having a fake mother monkey-type post/doll thing wherein the monkeys became extremely dependent on them emotionally and physically. They pretty accurately recreated exactly how the doll and testing environment looked. All of this realistic attention to detail of course applied to the stop motion monkey who takes center…

For me, probably Korine's best, or at least his most emotionally-effective. I have never felt so deeply for a character in one of his films as I did for every single one in julien donkey-boy.

What really blew me away was the stunning three-dimensionality of each individual that I had the pleasure of being introduced to. Especially within Julien's family, I found myself easily relating to them, yet at times easily despising them. As with real human beings, my feelings…