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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, 8PM EST, first up is another of the most acclaimed Soviet sci-fi films, Kin-dza-dza! (1986). Two average Soviet dudes are teleported to an alien planet and must navigate its strange, suspiciously-capitalist society based on the trading of matchsticks. Will they be able to make sense of the aliens’ and social customs and find their way home? We’ll find out, but only after a whole bunch of wacky antics. Director is Georgiy Daneliya, who also made the bloomer rom-com Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964), which we previously watched.

Next up is Dislocation (1986), a Chinese satire about a bureaucrat who makes a robotic duplicate of himself to fill in for him at his job. Hilarity ensues as the robo-twin navigates the labyrinthine world of CPC politics. This is one of the earliest sci-fi films from mainland China, and still one of its best-regarded; it is arguably the best-known film of director Huang Jianxin, who specializes in bureaucratc comedies. Looks cool; let’s watch.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • Kin-dza-dza!: https://letterboxd.com/film/kin-dza-dza/
  • Dislocation: https://letterboxd.com/film/dislocation/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • Kin-dza-dza!: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091341/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ql_stry_4
  • The Super Inframan: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.

CWs for Kin-dza-dza!:

  • Sex.
  • Nudity.
  • Fistfighting.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.
  • Nervous breakdowns.
  • Surrealism.

CWs for Dislocation:

  • Death of robot.
  • Nervous breakdowns.
  • Identity theft.
  • Dissociation.
  • Bureaucracy.

Links to movies:

  • Kin-dza-dza!: https://tankie.tube/w/19uc1pyjXvfXhjXQWpimWH
  • Dislocation: https://tankie.tube/w/g4LRKgS96bmKVtzNbj9QL3