You won't believe this.
This entire Jean-Claude Van Damme action movie (JCVD) was one giant set-up, for this brilliant, haunting, heart-breaking scene, wherein he literally floats up and out of the movie to reveal his real-life pain, despair, addiction, and earnest dreams.
Oscar level performance. Seriously.
Surreal, original, and unforgettable.
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But I was unprepared for this uniquely self-referential narrative and laid-bare exploration of what it means to be a working actor in the actxploitation genre.
His real parents -- referenced in this clip --are in this movie, too. The plot, simply, is that Jean-Claude Van Damme -- himself and the character of himself, simultaneousy -- is (are?) accidently trapped in hold-up of a post office in Belgium, gone horribly wrong.
It makes a strange sense: the humunculoid action-figure genre is so tired, so over-done, so why not take a straight-to-video effort and torque it, take some risks? Theses films have a built-in audience, a predictable income, so if you give the teen boys what they want, you can also do anything you want. Expectations are so low.
This might just be the harbinger, the silver lining of the glut that is genre entertainment. Risks, and searing self-examination, like this, penetrate in ways that most independent films rarely do, or else do so with a precious artistic quality that can be tiresome.
This? this is raw.
I do highly recommend the watching of JCVD. It is an excellent film and deserved all the praise it has received.