In Cinemas: Harmony Korine - The Beach Bum

What happened in America in 2016? It was the same: The Americans elected a German president. Correctly, a president of German descent - but these are only secondary facts. Like every good German, this president loves fences and walls. Surely the Americans didn't know that even in Kreuzberg there are miles of fences. Even around street trees. Germans like the US president eat a lot of meat and then look like a meat loaf (and explode in front of testosterone). And above all they suffer from "German Angst". Just like all of America with the German president since 2016. They are afraid of their neighbors - above all. Short and sweet; in 2016 America's backbone broke. And the reaction of Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum? Everything MUST be in order! If you need to, you have to look for a few happy moments. Outside the world collapses, but before that we smoke one with Snoop Dogg and Jimmy Buffett. Everything that counts, that is exclusively what counts for YOU. Mannomann! "He may be a jerk, but he's a great man"; that's what the daughter says about her father. Is it about the German president again? No. That's how Heather (Stefania LaVie Owen) describes her father Moondog (Matthew McConaughey). A carefree pothead poet who runs around half-naked most of the time. The poet sleeps on the beach or in the villa of his wife Minnie (Isla Fisher). Of course they have an open relationship. That's an understatement. But their sex is great (when Moondog and Minnie are together). And what happens next? Well, Moondog is torn from his comfortable world and travels. And his daughter is right; Moondog is an idiot. He's only ready for a party on Saturday night, but otherwise socially incompetent. Nevertheless he has a big heart and cares. The Beach Bum looks like a movie party in the house of Snoop Dog. But in some moments Korine transcends the events. What's behind it? Above all, however, The Beach Bum is a cute movie with great songs that always start at the right moment (like when Minnie and Moondog dance together). Fortunately no angry film about the state of America 2019. A sweet and funny film!