Tarnation

Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation. Is it narcissism? Is it revolution? Is it catharsis for the filmmaker? Is it cathartic for the audience complicit in the filmmaker's catharsis? Is it partially staged? Or is it just a lovely, sad, and mesmerizing story about a boy who has thirty years of home video footage and an aesthetic sensibility uniquely muddied by two joints, PCP, and a formaldehyde dip?

Things I did not know but should have guessed: "tarnation" is a mispronounciation of "darnation," which is a euphemism for "damnation."