Kaboom [Blu-ray]

France released, Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( DTS-HD Master Audio ), French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), French ( DTS-HD Master Audio ), French ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Teaser(s), Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Smith, the bisexual Southern California college student whose misadventures - some possibly in his own head, many in other people's beds - are at the center of 'Kaboom, ' is a cinema studies major. This fact in itself may not be enough to establish him as an alter ego for the director, Gregg Araki, but it does allow Mr. Araki to offer some hints about what he is up to in this chaotic, trifling, oddly likable film. At one point Mr. Araki's super-bright color scheme gives way to flickering black-and-white images culled from the early, silent, aggressively Surrealist work of Luis Buñuel. Buñuel's insight in 'L'Age d'Or' and 'Un Chien Andalou' - independently repeated a few years later by Leo McCarey in the Marx Brothers vehicle 'Duck Soup' - was that the syntax of film could make the incongruous appear coherent. An illusion of continuity is produced that can turn nonsense into sense, even as the medium's compression and fracturing of time can have the opposite effect. And Mr. Araki works the logic both ways. 'Kaboom' is both crazily disjunctive and smooth, jumping from polymorphous sex comedy to murder mystery to paranoid apocalyptic science-fiction freakout, with nimble nonchalance and up-to-the-minute pop music cues. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival

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