Steven Soderbergh, Schizopolis, Eventualism

One of Steven Soderbergh's lesser known and smaller budget films, Schizopolis is a hilarious indictment of American ideals and expectations. Soderbergh himself stars in his own film in his first acting role as Fletcher Munson, speech writer for an L. Ron Hubbard style religious cult, navigating the banalities of life and marriage in a town filled with white picket fences, general discontent, and everything else you'd expect in a stereotypical American suburb. The film itself is anything but stereotypical, and any description or summation I might attempt to write would inevitably fall short of the film itself. It will suffice to say that Soderbergh was coming out the tail end of a rather difficult divorce, and if this film might be admitted as evidence, he was in the midst of quite the existential crisis. So he bucked up, wrote a script, paid for the production out of his own pocket, and made one of the most unexpected pieces of art I have ever watched. You should watch it too.