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An extremely underrated comedy movie for obvious reasons, Jack black in a leading role tells us pretty much everything we need to know, he haven't been in a decent movie since forever, but this movie proves that you shouldn't judge jack black by his previous work, because his performance in this movie is something you haven't seen before.
Based on true events, it's tells the story of Bernie, a very nice guy from small town in Texas who works as mortician, he's very social and he loves his town and he helps people and everybody love him, the movie looks like a Docudrama because as you follow Bernie along, there are too many people living in that town being interviewed, but those people are actors, so it's not a Docudrama, it's a full length movie.
The movie is very nice and kinda slow at first just showing you the life of Bernie as you go through it everyday, you kinda forget that it's based on true story and you keep watching Bernie closely as he's a very interesting and charismatic guy, he always compliment people and he's very caring and always have a smile on his face and he loves his community, but then he meets this old women who just became a window so he start helping her and things evolve into a kinda weird relationship, and the women starts abusing him, she's very self-involved and she's hated by everyone in the town, and she deals with him as her's, she starts to force him to do stuff for her, and because she's very possessive, and he's very nice, the abuse continue, until it reach a boiling point and he shoots her in the back four time and then he hides her body in the fridge for 9 months and starts spending her money (she's very rich) to help people.
For the first hour of the movie before the murder, you have no idea where the movie is going, but you don't care because you're completely amused by Jack black performance and by the overall atmosphere of the movie, it was based in a small town, so as the movie interview people, you get to see what people thinks of him, some people thinks he's gay, some people thinks he's into old women and it's very funny, it's just a very well written black comedy, and then it gets even better the second hour when everybody in the town have learned about the murder, but somehow they don't believe it, and they still think that because he was nice and she was awful, he should be freed, and it's really is the truth stranger than fiction, because you get to see people defending a murderer, just because they hate the old women, and it get so bad, that the chief of the town actually had to remove his court to another town because he thought the jury will decide that he's Innocent just because they like him.
In most cases, this movie was bashed or overlooked, because people think it's rude or insensitive to make a comedy movie about an actual murder, but to me, i don't see how the movie couldn've actually worked if it weren't a comedy, and what made it work was the incredible performance by Jack Black and the very well written story, so if you into black comedy, then this is a pure gold.
7/10
