barton fink

jesus christ i hate shit like this. i just read through the fucking wikipedia and got so incredibly bored. i hate how this stuff circles back in on itself, how self referential and small. it's a weird-ass movie about a playwright who goes to hollywood and lives at a creepy hotel with a fellow who turns out to be a homicidal maniac. it's about the creative process and world war ii and postmodernism and flannery o'connor and sex too and nothing at all, especially when people talk about how it's about all these things. it's a sprawling, surreal story littered with oddities that demand exhaustively petty and breathtakingly esoteric analysis.  OH GOD! it REFERENCES something! FUCK THAT!