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Stepping into the press lounge, I noticed that I was the only person there aside from the staff. It was at that moment I realized that I had either got ahead of everybody or there was no media coming. I knew Ford's star had fallen since the crack-fueled heyday of insane press scrums and campouts outside his office, but I figured a bizarre film like this might attract a little more attention.I sat down at a window-side chair to charge my phone. While fumbling with a bent USB cable, I began to toss my hand around the gift bag they had gave me. What I pulled out surprised me—a bobblehead of one of the main characters, Ricky: a fat, tropical shirt-wearing sleazebag who wears a fedora, of all things. There were also four more bobbleheads included, one of which—obviously touted as the prize possession, being that it was in a special box—was of Rob Ford himself. They also threw in a watch that seems to sell for $500 (like, thanks, but don't they usually give out Snickers or Starbucks cards in these things?), right beside a pair of cheap sunglasses, which is a good analogy for the production quality of the film compared to its actual contents.
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As you can probably expect from a cast of people who use the word "gay" as an insult multiple times within the first 20 minutes of the film, the entirety of Toronah (which was apparently unscripted—suggesting that the people in the film weren't just playing assholes) consisted of a dozen or so old, white men living out their dreams as wannabe Trailer Park Boys: boozing it up, spending lots of money, and yelling obscenities at each other while making jokes about fucking various women.I love a good edgy comedy as much as the next guy, but I couldn't help but feel dirty and squeamish while watching the film, which was essentially a showcase for the bar-side jokes of the middle-aged men who ran the show. Throughout the entire film, the level of race jokes, extreme sexism, and blatant trans/homophobia was appalling.Read on Noisey: Here Is Rob Ford Making a Beat
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