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A nebish hammer salesman who is socially broken and can't rationally go through his day with out sending people fleeing or causing problems for himself, ends up stepping on nail in his garden and allowing the infection to over take him and his life.
This episodic black comedy about a very unlikable person gets all it's laughs by watching the "hero" dig himself deeper and deeper. It's a grand uncomfortable comedy about one man wrecking his own life because he can't or won't see there are problems. The most telling example of that is the way he refuses to deal with the infection. Even as the film slips briefly into body horror he really just doesn't understand.
How you react to the film will be determined by how much you like to watch bad things happen to stupid people. Sure, things like Curb Your Enthusiasm worked but that was because there was something kind of loveable about Larry. Besides Larry wasn't a complete moron. In BAGWORM there isn't much to like about the man at the center, so I didn't care. Forgive me, I have always maintained that you need to like the person the story is about at some point for it to work. I never liked the guy
While not for me, if you like comedies about the cruelty of life this film is going to be for you.
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