C.O.G. 2013 123movies

Watch: C.O.G. 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Leaving the ivy-covered walls of Yale behind, the privileged and intellectual David sets out to discover the real world armed with books and a strong conviction of atheism. He goes to work at an apple orchard under an alias, but is thrust into a world he is wholly unprepared for with religious locals and untrustworthy co-workers. His sexuality and lack of faith will be tested as he learns to rely on strangers in a world that can’t be taught in books and a classroom..
Plot: A gay cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. Out of his element, he finds his lifestyle and notions being picked apart by everyone who crosses his path.
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Ratings:

	5.6/10 Votes: 3,785
	69% | RottenTomatoes
	60/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 78 Popularity: 7.193 | TMDB

Reviews:

Fails to live up to its source
C.O.G. is my favorite David Sedaris essay, even before I moved to Oregon and recognized some of its landmarks. The movie even begins with one of my favorite speeches from the essay, although the speech is much better on the page.

The story concerns a young man who fantasizes about joining the working class (as in Grapes of Wrath) and travels to Oregon to pick apples, work in an apple sorting factory, and make jade sculptures with a temperamental man who is trying to convert him to Christianity. In the essay, Sedaris, as himself, is state school educated, a stoner, accustomed to menial jobs, and from a working class family. In the movie, David – or Samuel, as he’s calling himself – is a smarmy preppy educated at Yale who is first depicted reading Darwin’s Origin of Species. When Sedaris makes fun of crazy people on a Greyhound, or working class people at a factory, it is clear that he is making fun of his own expectations, as well as people not far below him in social class. This is quite a contrast to an upper class character looking down on dumb poor people. This is one of the movie’s first flaws. And it colors almost everything. What is his true motivation, if he is so jaded and cynical? What is the movie trying to tell us about working people and Christians when it presents us with this character as its hero?

A second flaw is one chief among Hollywood movies, even those intended for the art-house crowd. Though David Sedaris himself, as well as the lead actor, are openly gay, this movie wouldn’t want to come out and just say such a thing, why people might flee into the streets. So it teases us with making us believe he might have a female love interest; it does not tell us what the source of the conflict is with his family (it would appear to be his coming out); it doesn’t tell us why he is so freaked out by a co-worker’s gay advances (is it because he’s grossed out by the man or the concept?), or how any of this might impact his potential conversion to Christianity. I’m sure the director has a lofty, annoying explanation for this oversight, but I can count two “so, was he gay?” posts already on the list of five that show up on the main page.

The score, mainly percussion, will be off-putting to many, especially in the first scenes on the bus. And the ending will also confuse. After personal conflicts with many of the characters, how will his opinions and his Christian conversion change? We know IRL that David Sedaris went on to a happy life as a bestselling author. A less vague ending could have shown what the character learned from these experiences, especially since this movie tried so hard to be more sincere than its comedic base.

This movie has some things going for it, but it is philosophically a disappointment.

Makes You Want to Die
I expected to last 10 minutes and then click off. I thought it would be a comedy. I wound up mesmerized. I approach all films with extreme caution, because I expect either a liberal message, or a Christian one, and I don’t want to be manipulated.

This one offered neither. One reviewer mentioned a “nihilist” viewpoint, but I’m not sure about that either, because there were some good people depicted in this film. Hence the world is not hopeless.

The young actor and his older “mentor” were equally great. I rarely say that about anyone. No one could have played their parts any better.

The Oregon scenery was breathtaking, and the music was effective in creating a sense of bewilderment. The decay of the human soul was set amidst the purity of pristine farms, pines, and fog.

The world is a dark place. That doesn’t mean everyone is dark and everything is hopeless and doomed. I guarantee you that some factory workers are decent normal people who take pride in their work ethic.

Having said that, the types depicted here were real and do exist in abundance in the real world. That comes as a tough pill to swallow for idealists. We want to believe that the poor are humble and sweet. Actually, many are trash, which is why they stay poor.

And yet we need their labor and their bravery in battle. It’s twisted and ironic, but so is the world.

I was expecting this film to trash Christians and Christianity and call them all hypocrites, but that’s not what happened. The couple that housed the boy were lovely people, and the church congregants appeared genuinely peaceful and loving.

I could have done without the gay thing, but I think I get it. His mom probably shunned him when he came out, and he felt guilty about who he was, so maybe he thought going out west would change him. Especially with his female friend.

But the gay thing just added a layer of awkwardness to an already awkward situation. Even straight, he would have been a fish out of water.

The final scene was brilliant. His mentor had good and bad within his soul, but ultimately arrogance took over. Christianity often attracts lost souls and sinners, and it’s very hard to keep their true nature from rearing its ugly head.

It was a terrific movie. Check it out if you have the patience for character/dialog-driven plots and can tolerate the bleakest view of human nature.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 28 min (88 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Writer Kyle Patrick Alvarez, David Sedaris
Actors Jonathan Groff, Denis O’Hare, Corey Stoll
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Red Epic, Panavision C-Series Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Redcode RAW (5K)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Panavision (anamorphic) (source format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema