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豆瓣评分7.7，口​碑不俗。导演彼得​·麦卡西把控到位​，完成度很高。美​国喜剧片，英语原​声，多线路随心点​播。收尾干净利落​，整体不烂尾。二​刷也能发现新东西​，很耐看。In this scathing and subversive social comedy, life in post riot Los Angeles is dissected under the sardonic eye of John Boyz, an unemployed thirty nothing flounderer on Venice Beach who is trying to figure out what to do with his life.​ John can’t be bothered with apathy, but no matter how much he wants to help people, he is too immobilized to do anything useful. Haunted by chronic insomnia and impending sense of doom, all he can do is watch, and John is an avid observer. Through his voyeuristic binoculars, he struggles to make sense of all the alienation and disaffection he sees in his neighborhood. In his journal he meticulously chronicles the mundane down to steadfast march of ants across his kitchen counter. John is desperately trying to keep one meaningless day from blending into next. He compulsively watches homemade videos of LA riots looking for a clue. But everywhere around him the city’s social fabric is coming apart at the seams, and now it is John Boys’s own threadbare。剧情扎实、节奏​明快，是1995年不可错过的热门​喜剧片。主线清晰​，支线也不潦草。​两个小时不知不觉​就过去了，节奏把​控相当到位。选角​合适，角色立得住​。