What’s a moment in your life that felt like it was straight out of a movie?
My regular readers will know by now that i’ve ‘lived’ my life. I’ve moved around a lot. Done some dumb sh*t, had some fun, had some not so much fun and all manner of stresses. So what was a moment that, looking back of course, feels like it could of been in a movie?
Well, Dookie of course! Why sit there reading about some overly dramatised real life crap when you can get this hook up!! Dookie the movie sounds freakin awesome!!!!!!
Dookie: A colourful life
One of the most memorable and defining parts of Tony Kearns’ satirical novel, Dookie (a Colourful Life), is the bizarre revelation that the world’s most corrupt leaders and retail bosses are being puppeted by actual demons living inside their lower intestines and colons.
The book is celebrated for its highly unusual, “surgically satirical” premise. Key aspects of this memorable storyline include:
• The Marine Revolt: Before finding himself in retail, the main character, Dookie, starts his journey as a Marine Warrior. In a memorable act of good conscience, he disobeys direct orders and leads his disavowed company in a chaotic, vain revolt against his former commanders, a corrupt group known as the GreenBacks.
• The “Hellmart” Epiphany: After the failed coup, Dookie is forced back to his homeland of Dragon Valley, where he takes a mundane job at a marketplace appropriately named Hellmart. It is here that he discovers the literal demonic possession of the ruling class.
• The Demonic Affinity for Power: The story explains that these bowel-dwelling demons have a biological obsession with money, power, and modern corporate greed.
• The Resistance Crew: Dookie teams up with a hilariously specific crew of retail co-workers, hipsters, and “snowflakes” to wage a war of retail anarchy. Their preferred method for tackling the complex socioeconomic horrors of neoliberal economics, the pandemic lockdown, and political insanity is delightfully simple: punching it square in the face.
The entire premise serves as an intense, vulgar, and surreal allegory for modern capitalism, drawing comparisons from reviewers to the absurd theatrical style of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu plays and the crude brilliance of South Park.
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