Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Sonny (review)
Hypnotic in its lunacy and sorta plaintive in its depiction of blustery patheticness, *Confessions* doesn’t even try to pretend that its protagonist is mentally ill… just crazy. It’s sad, and it’s hilarious, no matter how you take it. Either that *Gong Show* guy Chuck Barris was so insecure and so bored with his own life that he made up a story about being an assassin for the CIA, which is pitiful yet amusing, or Barris really *was* an assassin for the CIA, which means the world is even more fucked up than any of us knew, which is downright, insanely funny.
