Swiss Army Man - You'll never know when a corpse's farts can change your life

Swiss Army Man is an unclassifiable animal, between the most silly tape of intestinal gas jokes you have ever seen and a surprisingly inspiring, creative story, packed with spectacular details and memorable performances.

The film revolves around the relationship of friendship, madness and complicity between Hank (a Paul Dano in full maturity as an actor) and the corpse of Manny (Daniel Radcliffe in a role that allows him to exploit the strange rigidity of his body, usually his worst enemy). Hank is dirty, sad, and about to hang on a desert island when Manny appears on the beach, pale and without a pulse. She is about to leave it there to decompose under the sun when she discovers the power of the dead man's farts: with stomach gases in crescendo, Manny will slowly revive himself until he starts a naive dialogue with Hank, typical of those who have just been born at the time. life instead of those who have just died.

The farce explodes into a thousand flatulence before Manny becomes Hank's emotional mirror, who lives on raw emotions and total insecurity about how love or loneliness works. Sometimes truly amusing, Swiss Army Man is above all an essay on the forever alone post-adolescent imagination embedded in his private and very minor misfortunes.

In addition to the great performances and the good chemistry between the actors, the main interest of this film is its ability to make this narcissistic society a sick, decadent symbol, very ad hoc to the time.

It's not a movie for everyone (especially difficult for those who can't handle boner and fart jokes) but it's so unusual that you better not miss it.