- Director: Ryan Kruger
- Writers: Ryan Kruger
- Stars: Gary Green, Chanelle de Jager, Brett Williams
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 39 Minutes
Synopsis
Barry is a heroin addict, and his wife nags about how he’s a poor provider. They fight, and he walks out. He heads to the local bar instead. His friend at the bar makes a great case about how racist Disney is. The two of them leave without paying and go get high.
Later on, Barry walks home in the weirdly-lit fog. Then he walks into a beam of red light and flies up into an awaiting alien spaceship. He’s probed and prodded in numerous uncomfortable ways and then released. He walks the streets of the city, but is it really Barry or is it an alien? I’m thinking there’s an alien in his body.
He goes into a bar and listens as the bartender and customers talk. He doesn’t say anything. He then gets pulled into a nightclub and someone gives him ecstasy, because clearly he needs more drugs. He then grabs the packet and has a dozen more. It takes effect, and he dances insanely. He does something nasty with a guy in the restroom and then goes home with a girl. She has very quick, very needy sex with him, and then she throws him out.
Another girl takes him home for sex. He has no idea what’s going on, but he doesn’t make her stop. This girl, over a course of seconds, gets fat and gives birth to a normal-looking baby. In about a minute. He works fast! The pimp comes in and throws Barry out.
The sun comes up, and Barry keeps on walking. There’s a man talking about “aliens amongst us,” and Barry listens for a while. He sees a father feeding a baby. There’s a guy having a heart attack, but Barry fixes him. Barry’s angry wife throws him in the car and rants for a while as he sits there silently. He goes home and feeds his own son; he makes love to his wife. Maybe he’s actually better now this way?
The two go to the grocery store and encounter more strange people. Barry starts going through convulsions. She decides to take him to the hospital, but he jumps out of the car and runs away.
Eventually, he just starts flying around like Superman. A group of guys beat him up, and then there’s an intermission.
Barry wakes up tied to a chair in a filthy room with a strange child. They’re in a cage, captured by a strange man. “He’s from somewhere else, aren’t you?” he asks Barry. “What are you?” All Barry’s cuts and bruises are gone; he’s fully healed after his attack. He pulls out one of Barry’s teeth with pliers.
Barry wakes up the next morning to the sounds of the little girl screaming, so Barry breaks out of his bonds and rescues her. The man pursues them with a chainsaw, and we find that he has dozens of children locked up. Barry and the chainsaw man do battle as the girl grabs the keys and releases all the children. It gets really bloody really fast.
Barry walks the children out, and the police arrest him. Since Barry doesn’t speak, it doesn’t go well. They take him to the “loony bin.” Barry meets the other inmates. They almost immediately stage a prison break, and only Barry makes it out.
Barry picks up a ride with a guy named Lawrence, who drugs Barry with something else, causing a completely psychedelic side to his journey. He then runs into the woman who had the baby, who has grown up to look just like Barry– that is one ugly baby! Barry is looking older and not at all healthy. They take him back to the hospital, where they pronounce him dead just as his wife arrives.
Barry sits up and projects his memories into his wife. Barry’s wife and his baby momma drive off with Barry. They take him to where he was originally abducted, and the saucer returns. Both women kiss Barry goodbye with tears in their eyes and get gets beamed up.
Commentary
…And this is why South Africa is not a big tourist destination!
And that’s basically it. Barry is a weird-looking, scary guy, but you soon see that he’s not only ignorant but innocent in all the crazy goings-on on planet Earth. He moves from one situation to the next, encountering crazy, funny, twisted characters all night long and watching their reactions.
The various South African accents are really strong, and I strongly recommend subtitles. I imagine some of the regional accents and phrases have some meaning that as an American, flew right over my head, and there was clearly a lot more going on socially than I understood.
Still, it was surprisingly entertaining.