Movie review: Living in Oblivion

Well, a mini-review. Because kactus is right, Peter Dinklage's rant toward the end of this film is both hilarious and great righteous anger unleashed.

Living in Oblivion is a 1995 comedy about the trials of independent film-making, where everything that can go wrong with a production, does, and yet the project stumbles along. Here's a review of the movie as a whole that captures the comedic angst of the film.

Dinklage plays a dwarf named Tito hired for a goofy dream sequence in the film-within-the-film. Among the many misadventures of completing the dream scene, Tito finally quits in disgust after this tirade with the director:

Tito: Why does my character have to be a dwarf?

Nick: He doesn't have to be.

Tito: Then why is he? Is that the only way you can make this a dream, to put a dwarf in it?

Nick: No, Tito, I...

Tito: Have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this! "Oh make it weird, put a dwarf in it!". Everyone will go "Woah, this must be a fuckin' dream, there's a fuckin' dwarf in it!". Well I'm sick of it! You can take this dream sequence and stick it up your ass!

While I am again waxing on about All Things Dinklage, here's an old review of The Station Agent that appeared in The New Yorker, and here's a USAToday article on short actors in Hollywood.