This is a[nother] piece which is dual purposed. Part of a complete dissertation on Green Day’s album Warning and piece for Neurotic Nihilism which is still in the process of being scribed. While the entire dissertation is going to inevitably be included in the NN Lexicon, it’s written so as to stand alone at the same time. This small multifaceted writing has regards to the song ‘Jackass’ from the album, though it’s minimally touched on here given the point is the idea of the jackass rather than the song alone, wherein the full writing about the song contains information more pertinent elsewhere. This could have fit after NN III.3: A Track Trinity however given it’s primarily regarding a film’s depiction of a jackass, it fits in NN.II at II.3 as is currently being collected in said fashion.
Napoleon Dynamite is a slacker film in the complete (and touted) absence of point. A benign film, humorous in its representation of the monotonous life of one bored burnout in the midst of bumfuck nowhere suburban small-town banality.
Napoleon’s Uncle Rico, a recurring main character in the movie, is an exemplary jackass, and in the way which comedy is horror in laughing guise: a failed athlete, his entire life revolves around being unable to move on from an injury which cost him big league possibility. Devastated, as it’s what his life hinged on, but not so ultimately unrecoverable.
Despite displaying a genuine albeit malformed entrepreneurial career, his plot in the film is an attempt to build procure a working Time Machine in order to fix his unwanted life. Rico becomes the Jackass with the trauma never leaving and creeping into his whole livelihood. The Body Keeps The Score and we are solipsistic in misery…
His entire persona being not what is but what even decades after high school sports, in his mind should be.
“Gosh!”
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