Dennis Cote’s documentary film “Cleaning Simb Paul” presents
Should we determine correctly “SIMP”? For those (lucky enough?) They are not present in the online spaces where this is a common language, it refers to a person who provides excessive compliment to an object of his romantic affection or endeavor, with a little treatment. Somewhere more benign to this colloquial spectrum on the Internet than “Incel”, the SIMP is definitely not a great threat or inconvenience to “SIMP-ED”, and compassion in addition to cautious appreciation is the typical reaction from the observers. Unique in this concept, SIMPING publicly as well as within special reactions: click on the responses below a tweet from Cult-RISH Ceverebry, and you will see Simping.
A formal festival documentary contains a new star and the user name is “SIMP Paul Cleaning”. Dennis Cote, the abundant author behind “Paul”, honestly spoke about the intelligence of his subject and relative self -awareness; From this, we can see Paul wraps this speeches with a wink, and perhaps of the type of emojis. Its rollers, which were fully repeated in the association, are expressed in eloquence: this is shy and overweight in the early thirty years in which “bit” cleans the homes of selective strangers without any payment and a great self -payment, all for the purpose of alleviating the disrupted social anxiety. Those from the Sudanese bean gallery who determine the supposed “width” will never go away on this precise interpretation of the term.
But Cote, a French -Canadian essential player for the Art Festival circle, is buried a little in his exhibition. Think that it opens a few minutes, because the fraudulent urine method makes this look like a pleasant, eccentric modernity, more literal than the “LOL RANDOM” of Mr. Beast. However, we soon realize that his customers have classified them from the famous Kink scene in Montréal, and these reactions meet a very special need for urine, in an environment that is attributed to an evaluation of approval and the fun of the border. To Côté credit and the TERENCE Chotard, it is a smooth introduction to new information, instead of being eager, to move from him to clean the sink, to one of his customers using his trunk as a shell.
Côté prepares documentary films where viewers can investigate a productive and originality, and imagination features usually consist in a nude style, albeit very elegant. However, “Paul” fits happily with the broader non-fictional strain as the director is cultivated on gravity, often an anomalous individual-which also makes him more consumed for a wider audience than his previous work. But the gap hole is less skilled than these films – imposing a waiver judgment and a call to ridicule – also avoided. Cote Paul undoubtedly notes a personal balance in this pledge, but it leaves it for ourselves to think about the strange trinity of unwanted household chores, a deep internet culture and BDSM.
Evaluating all the information that gives us the movie again, and the clear absence is any indication of the autism spectrum. Paul speaks frankly near the beginning of exhausted anxiety, depression and the resulting social isolation he suffers; In fact, the audience may be moved to an informal diagnosis. A deeper background arrives when he describes his twenties as a complete deletion, first leaks from the kidney, then is ashamed to go out or interact with anyone. However, besides being a positive movie for sex, it is just a positive and gratitude in both cases: with armed targets, Paul determines himself from followers to achieve, and then, for weight, we can monitor a personal privacy system of self -improvement that works well.
The boundaries between exposure and privacy are also the magic of Kut. Paul is just one of the thousands of secluded and unit who generate a “second life” in the digital world, a Tabula Rasa show on a new position to become (clear, visible, visible knowledge, from its timing addiction and comedy- scattered rollers, as it puts it as a good spirit of the director). However, the most provocative is how this intersects with the connected party: the need for the sexual factor to marketing and advertising and organizing it for consumption.
This is also the place where the Kut side is revealing the activities of the body and vibrant on a non -supernatural screen, although recognition of the gratitude of convincing fossils against the first show in the last Berlins, “this type of summer”, on the dominance of its male outlook. The higher the number of light palpitations, the masks of style and play the suggestive foods that we see-and how the most boring household chores are eliminated to a large extent-we can teach “urine” as a piece of pure Trojan horse, and partly meets a more convenient taste than those who love them, but they work as an opening Documentary and anthropology for the rest of us.
She hovers about the positives of “SIMP” is the word “Sub” – Paul definitely proudly, because we gradually understand that its content is not only delighted to pass, but it offers with happiness his sexual preference as “outside” enthusiastic KINK, the clarity of vision on himself and perhaps others love him to come with the continuation of a year 2020. Everything is very cool québécois and alt-montréal: Enable leaving your flag is a strange flying in the full mast.
Row: B+
Paul was first shown at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival. She is currently seeking to distribute us.
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