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[innerSpaceman]

Hehehe, a very sweet movie, for being about the limbo that successful suicidals are doomed to.

It wasn't exactly that the car radio played only Gogol Bordello, but that the movie's Eugene only had tapes of his old band. It was not an element of the doom of the dour afterlife, but just a devise to get some early Gogol Bordello tunes on the soundtrack. They used 3 songs from Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony (2002), which is the only early CD of theirs I have.

Using the early stuff made it believable that this Eugene's band was not a success ... and, for those in the know, made his suicide (on stage, during much heckling, by electrocuting himself with his guitar) all the more bittersweet because the band would have started to record some great stuff in a few years (their seminal work, Gypsy Punks, was released in 2005).


This film was such an odd bookend with the movie Life is Illuminated which hired Eugene Hutz to play a very different character than his usual persona, and the new Wristcutters instead wanted a character like Eugene's persona, and hired a different actor to perform it.


TeeHee.



Hmmm .... Being that a motion picture is released this week featuring those songs from Multi Kontra, I'm surprised Gogol Bordello did not play any of them (or anything from that album) at either of their two recent shows in L.A.