An inanimate tire that comes to life with telepathic powers capable of exploding whatever comes in its way... but why? No reason.
So is the common theme of the film Rubber: there's no reason for any of the bizarre sequence of events to happen, but it does, and it's quite good. The film, directed by Quentin Dupleux, is equal parts fun, hilarious, strange and gruesome. As we follow our little menacing tire friend throughout the desert with vengeance on its mind, all thoughts of logic are pushed aside and we learn to just roll with it (pun fully intended). In this world that Dupleux has built, a group of people have assembled, an audience if you will, to watch a movie with binoculars. What they watch is what we're watching, the rampage the living tire is going through. This is another aspect of what makes Rubber so unique and completely original, how aware the film is of itself and how it presents it to us. As well as all of this, the cinematography alone is gorgeous and is very pleasing to the eye.
Go watch it, and I promise you, you will never look at a tire the same way again.
-Michelle
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