As an African American incest and child sexual abuse survivor, Malcolm Harris of The Huffington Post wrote that Billy Mayo's performance was "brilliant" and that "we should be applauding the fact that someone has finally shown true courage in proposing the question, 'What If? What if these strange events were happening behind the closed doors of the Smiths, the Rosenbergs, the Mortimers, the Herreras? What if these strange things were happening to me?'"[7]
In exactly 29 minutes and 06 seconds independent filmmaker, Ari Aster and a cast of relatively unknown actors managed to leave all that took the challenge riveted, enlightened, disturbed and by most accounts, downright disgusted. But disgusted in a good way, if you know what I mean. The first time I watched The Johnsons, I could not believe what I was witnessing. This very young director, straight out of film school, somehow magically possesses the unique and uncanny ability to transform viewers into voyeurs, voyeurs into messengers, and messengers into loyal disciples. Mr. Aster meticulously unravels this twisted story of family hierarchy, social perception and dirty little secrets into a cinematic masterpiece. To some it's a classic Monet - beautiful from a far, but as you get closer and closer the ugly truth is slowly revealed. There is even something actually quite romantic about the dark cinematography deployed by the filmmaker and his crew. The film artfully blends the feeling and pace of Tom Ford's A Single Man, the tabooed romanticism of the Italian gem, I Am Love, and the melodrama of the film lover's classic, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. There is also a strange sense of victory in Mr. Aster's artistic recklessness as he takes on the very grotesque and uncomfortable subject of incest. His unabashed approach to incest is a scenario most of us would never dare to imagine. Mr. Aster further challenges his audience by proposing the most taboo and dirty question of all: "What if?"
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I can still remember the sick feeling I would get when I instinctively knew someone my family had left me in the care of was going to harm or molest me. Here I was child and I innately knew what lay ahead. With absolute recall I can remember a particular evening catching a glimpse of fear affixed to my tiny face as we passed an old antique mirror leading to an uncle's bedroom. I saw this same exact look on the face of the elder Mr. Johnson brilliantly played by acting veteran, Billy Mayo. I can physically recall the presence of evil on dark nights or rainy afternoons when God would leave the room and the Devil entered as my tormentor. I saw this same evil and rage within the monster of young Mr. Johnson portrayed by newcomer, Brandon Greenhouse. And I can vividly see the naïve visage and gentle eyes of the silent-conspirator turned heroine in the mother of the villain and wife of the victim as perfectly casted in the choice of actress Angela Bullock. Yes, I know first hand what is so very strange about The Johnsons.
So in my humble opinion, we should be applauding the fact that someone has finally shown true courage in proposing the question, "What If? What if these strange events were happening behind the closed doors of The Smiths, The Rosenbergs, The Mortimers, The Herreras? What if these strange things were happening to me?
14 years later, Isaiah acquires a respectable background and is married. Unfortunately, the abuse just continued. During the wedding reception, his mother Joan hears a commotion and peering through a hole in a fence, she is horrified to see Isaiah rashly unbuttoning his father to perform oral sex on him. Despite seeing this, Joan decides to do nothing about it to keep "everything under control".
Sidney had since taken to writing an autobiographical manuscript entitled Cocoon Man: Confessions by Sidney Johnson, and places the memoir under his wife's pillow, along with a note asking for her forgiveness. Isaiah arrives claiming that his toilet was broken and he goes into Sidney's bedroom. He discovers the document and tries to guilt-trip his father about what he had written, accusing him of starting his spiral into incestuous obsession. After Isaiah informs him that he will burn the manuscript and being warned that he'd do something worse shall he make more, Sidney reluctantly gets rid of the memoir.
Isaiah is shown to have a condescending and sexually abusive relationship with his father, as he was molesting and raping his father for fourteen years, resulting in Sydney writing a memoir about said abuse called "Coccoon Man". He is constantly manipulative towards him as he lies to his father that he sees him as not just his dad, but his best friend, even though everything he's done suggests otherwise. After Isaiah rapes him in the bathroom, Sydney sees through his son's lies and leaves through the door, and it's even implied that Sydney deliberately got ran over by the vehicle to escape his son's abuse.
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This is a short film, so anything mentioned here will just destroy a great experience. The Strange Thing About the Johnsons takes everything you conventionally know about certain situations and flips each moment so wildly on its head, you might even laugh at the power of its irony.
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