If you want to do blockchain forensics, you'll quickly find out who suggested that me, in particular might have a good idea watching this film. With a title like Sightseers, I'm going in completely blind, and I'm happy about that.
Chris and Tina are going on a road trip. Tina is a thirty-something, socially impoverished woman who still lives with her elderly, controlling mother. Chris is a man with a volvo and a caravan, an itinerary in mind, and pounds to convert to fuel, to keep the vehicle rolling on down the road.
They arrive at a caravan park or campsite, and it is here where the movie begins proper.
Some ten to fifteen minutes in, and there's a post-pre-meditated murder, that is meant to be accident, carried out in a hilarious b-grade style. It is an accident, but the smile of the man named Chris is not entirely innocent. For you see, they had a mild disagreement earlier, and how thrilling for that to impulsive blast of hatred to escalate into murder.
It is here where you start to understand the central penchant of this film. What if you murdered individuals who caused you the slightest inconvenience. What if it was b-grade horror inspired, and well… funny?
Returning now, to the reality of the film.
The fact that the police let a man who accidentally killed another man continue his holiday is funny enough, but when he and his lady-friend get to the camp site and there's still blood on the wheel, well, I was in stitches, and not the medical kind, either.
This is the point that my wife gave up. The comedy of errors and to her, the unlikeable characters were too much. I wanted to watch on eagerly. She wanted to watch mindless anime. We adjourned.
I returned to it later, slightly enamoured by the notions the film represents. I didn’t expect it to escalate to more and more murders from the beginning, but it does. They’re hilarious, they contrast with the idyllic settings they occur in, and the characters grow more conflicted.
It is funny, in a tragic kind of way. There’s no reams of emotional impact to dissect, or contemplate. It is just a bloody, funny time. Until it ends.
So dear readers, please hold in the urge to murder strangers. Ensure that this film isn't a prophetic documentary like Idiocracy.
