Hits centers around a man named Dave Stuben who lives in a small economically-depressed town in upstate New York named Liberty. Dave's hobbies include bringing home trash from his place of employment and voicing his various complaints at the town council meetings. Dave's daughter is an aspiring, yet horribly untalented, singer who is obsessed with fame, no matter the costs. After a video of Dave getting arrested at a particularly heated town meeting goes viral on Youtube, all hell breaks loose.
Written and directed by my favorite anus tart, David Cross. |
Hits is a combination of small town living meets Internet bandwagon-ing. There is a yearning in almost every character that is almost palpable. The yearning for something more. Then there is the desperation that sinks in as the townsfolk watch their dreams begin to visibly crumble. The struggle is interwoven with the reality that almost every moment of our lives are now subject to being recorded and posted to the Internet. Viral videos and "vaguebooking" and sex tapes and jumping on causes because everyone else is doing it are the undoing of Liberty, NY and a great commentary on our society's online behavior as a whole.
Man, I'm deep.
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