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Heimlich Maneuvers on the Way to Self

To visit the absurdist world of “Choke,” the second film adapted from a novel by the “Fight Club” author Chuck Palahniuk, requires that you dive through the looking glass into a labyrinth where personal identity is fluid. At one point its cheerfully snarky narrator and self-proclaimed sex addict Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), is half-convinced that he is cloned from tissue taken from the foreskin of a holy relic. Might he be the son of the son of the Son of God?
This dubious information is gleaned from Paige Marshall (Kelly Macdonald), the angelic, too-good-to-be-true doctor treating the worsening dementia of his mother, Ida (Angelica Huston). [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4881 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 26 settembre 2008