Week 5 - Oh that's "clever"

My first impression of "Rubber" is that its writer/director/whatever wants to mock and insult the audience for all of those elements of entertainment that are taken for granted; and in pointing them out desires adulation simply for being "clever". Steal this movie. By the way - while there is an awful lot of "no reason" in real life (such as the fact that life is pointless and all meaning is assigned, not inherent) this film and indeed most films aren't actually displaying "no reason", they're simply not stating the reason to the audience. I don't want to give too much credit to bad filmmakers though, because most of the time - including "Rubber" - the reason is "because the writer/director/whatever said so". And yes I've been lazy and not really gone through the readings, going really off of my impressions of the portion of the film that was shown. As for identifying the first plot point - not sure, but if it's about surprising the audience then I'd say when the tyre first starts moving on it's own. If it's about surprising the "audience", then I'd say when it first demonstrates its mind-splodey powers, that generates quite a stir amongst them.