There’s a modern culture clash going on with the Doctor, here; the inability to understand that other people are different and that there is nothing so odd out there that it is odd in its own culture.

Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri make a Porno is, like all his other films, about normal life among subcultures (this is me with my bullshit critic voice). There’s an incredibly sweet moment in the outtakes on the dvd: Stacey and Lester are done filming some Hot n’ Nasty Anal Sex. He asks if she’d like to go to breakfast. She says no, she’s not hungry, but she’ll see him tomorrow for more work. As she leaves, he says quietly to himself, “Nice girl.”

He looks like he’s just met her at the malt shop. What they’ve just done is normal in his culture. That doesn’t mean she isn’t sweet and nice, and he can appreciate that. It’s really all about the context of where we come from.

Filmology: watch for the use of ellipses and the Double Dutch Rub.

Cautions: you could laugh your thyroid out on the floor watching this movie. The only time Nearest ever laughs that hard is watching the scene between Peter Boyle and Gene Hackman in Young Frankenstein.

Which we saw in a double feature with The Fearless Vampire Killers at Seattle’s Harvard Exit theater. There were some yeshiva student from the Hebrew Union Theological Seminary in the audience, laughing their yarmulkes off over the Jewish jokes.