There are movies made during the pandemic, and movies made because the pandemic, and though debuting director Jake Johnson had been kicking around the idea for “Self Reliance” for years, it took CO…
” for years, it took COVID to motivate him to make it. Why? Because the “New Girl” actor’s absurdist concept — about a sad-sack bored enough with his life that he agrees to risk it in a “Most Dangerous Game”-style reality show — assumed both profundity and relevance as soon as the species went into lockdown. Coming up for connection, Johnson delivers a silly and frequently surprising why-we-need-people parable.
Like a lo-fi, gore-free “Squid Game,” the competition described in “Self Reliance” is far from cutting-edge entertainment, and Tommy puts a lot of faith in the producers that they won’t try to trick him. The first few days, Tommy studies everyone around him, paranoid that they might be intending to snuff him. Just when he starts to get comfortable, Tommy spots a guy with a rifle in his yard and decides that maybe he should call on his friends and family to protect him.
When his loved ones let him down, Tommy enlists the first sucker he can find: James , a good-natured bum who’s easily convinced to serve as Tommy’s constant companion — and who, with his missing front teeth and Salvation-Army-Santa beard, becomes a steady source of laughs.
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