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How Does Your Garden Grow?

January 6th, 2003 · No Comments

I have literally been waiting for years for the fantastic dark comedy The Last Supper to be released on DVD, and it’s finally coming to pass this Tuesday. If you haven’t seen it, I suggest going out and grabbing it immediately. If you have seen it, you probably don’t need my encouragement.

The movie — with a surprisingly good early performance by Cameron Diaz — tells the story of five lefty grad students sharing a house together, who have a guest for dinner and discussion each week. When, through a series of unexpected events, one such dinner ends with their killing of a violent racist in self-defense, they decide they’ve discovered a new form of “activism.” Reflecting on the question: “What if you had the chance to kill Adolf Hitler as a young artist?” the housemates resolve to invite a particularly loathsome conservative to dinner each week, for the purpose of poisoning the guest, who’s promptly buried beneath the tomato patch out back. All is well at first, but as the sins necessary to trigger a death sentence begin to slip from cardinal to venal, it beocmes clear that some of the gang are more bloodthirsty than others.

Libertarians in particular are apt to enjoy this one, since it skewers left and right equally viciously. The conservatives are all duly repugnant — a notch below even National Review columnists, if you can believe it — and the grad students spout lines like: “Of course we’ll do the right thing… we’re liberals!” In short, you can have a macabre laugh regardless of who ultimately ends up feeding the tomatoes. There’s also a superbly executed twist ending, and a killer soundtrack worth picking up on its own. So stop reading this, and go buy this movie. It’s the politically correct thing to do.

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