When the Academy Awards announced they were expanding the nominees for the Best Picture category from 5 to 10, everyone knew what the reason was: ratings. Oscar had grown tired of solely recognizing films based on quality, and hoped that by including more films, they’d attract more box-office-friendly films and thus, more eyeballs.
If they honestly gave two shits about recognizing the best films of a given year, the category they expanded would have been Best Foreign Film. That way, a great film like Police, Adjective would not be overlooked.
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Imagine the box of plastic toys you probably had as a kid. There’s a horse, an Indian, a cowboy, some cows and pigs, and maybe a policeman. They’re all those molded playthings that balance on the green platforms, you remember those, right?
Now imagine giving that box of plastic toys, a camera, a government film grant and some (sadly) illegal hallucinogens to a couple of Belgian filmmakers who have a penchant for creating bizarre stop-motion animation.
The result is A Town Called Panic.
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