a frightening documentary look into the lives of the world's best donkey kong players. no, really. it's frightening because the level of nerdiness in this film far surpasses anything i've ever seen, ever.two ordinary men tangle over the "world record" in donkey kong. egos fill the screen, and jedi comparisons are thrown around willy-nillily.
the most compelling part of this film was how these "championship" players carried themselves in an almost high-school bully with an inflated ego kind of way. the guy who had held the dk record for 24 years is a grade-a asshole, who happens to be surrounded by cronies that only wish for his record to stay put. their regression into pre-teen boys, bullying and mindfucking the decent-hearted record challenger, is almost too much to watch.
a must-see, especially if you want to feel like one of the cool kids. or you at least want to feel a little more normal/less like an asshole.
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