🎬 This fantasy-comedy freezes country music in its own authentic silliness. | ✍️ nberlat
It’s a little late in the day for a Garth Brooks parody, but Mickey Reece’sis fully aware of its own obsolescence. Garth analog Troyal Brux has it all—hit records, a perfect family, and a bland, imperturbable self-regard. When country legend George Jones asks for a meeting in Nashville, Troyal assumes it’ll be a chance for the mutual admiration of greats—a passing of the torch. George, though, is a craggy, weather-beaten vortex of bitter decadence.
The fame-corrupts-the-innocent plot is an elaborate send-up, as is just about everything in the film, which hovers somewhere between a surreal Christopher Guest mockumentary and Hal Hartley’s deadpan irony. The black-and-white cinematography is as stark as George’s self-pity or Troyal’s moral crossroads. George is planning to get himself cryogenically frozen.
The film is in it for the giggles in part. But it also enjoys giving country music’s authenticity fetish a solid kick in its big dumb hat. A new movie in which someone very like the almost forgotten Garth Brooks worries about his legacy can’t help but skewer and perhaps celebrate the carny mythic hick hype of both C&W and America. The George Jones up onscreen is as fake as the gold shitkicker boots supposedly worn by John Fogerty.
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