Walking into the theater to see "Swiss Army Man" I wasn't really sure what to expect. By the time a few wonderfully bizarre scenes had passed, I realized I shouldn't expect anything. Instead of setting up a plot and creating expectations, this movie invites you to let go and ride along with it, and you happily do, as long as you can accept that a corpse can fart with enough intensity to act as a speedboat. We are immediately introduced to Hank, a man stranded on a deserted island and devoid of any hope. As Hank puts his head inside the knot of a noose he has made, he scans the coastline one more time. He sees the corpse of a man lying along the beach, with the waves still lapping onto his body. Hank removes the noose from his neck and walks over to the corpse, thus beginning this epic broship and the odyssey to get them both back home. In the scenes following, Hank and Manny (the corpse) rediscover the parts of life no one talks about too much, such as feeling too weird to ask someone out, thinking about our dead parents at times we shouldn't, and what love really feels like. Also farting, there is a lot of farting. The jokes are close-to-perfectly timed and delightful. The silences are philosophical. The directors have a wide experience making music videos, and we see that in the movie in visually delicious montages of memories and soul-nudging acapella rhythms.

This movie strings us along a series of wild, hilarious, and heart-warming scenes between Hank and Manny, and in the end, it's those scenes that matter the most to Hank, not the rescue or the girl he thought would matter most. It's Manny that is the most important thing to Hank, even after he needs him no more. Bros before hoes am I right? It isn't so much a bro movie, however, as it is an exploration of what it means to be a human. There comes a certain time in the movie when you wonder if the two guys are really meant to get back home, or if they have found a place together, in the wild, that could compare to nothing else that could be in their lives anymore. You start to wonder if the love between the two could be all their lives really needed. Could we say that the movie is trying to tell us that all our plans are not really what our lives are, that we only find the essence of existence by going along with the unexpected; that we can spend all our lives not asking our crush out, not confronting our issues with our parents, never taking risks, and find out that we only begin to live once we decide we have nothing left to lose, and toss the metaphoric noose off our necks? Sure. I think "Swiss Army Man" is a question, and every viewer is left to answer it. Plus, you get to see Daniel Radcliffe fart himself off the ground, and who doesn't want to see that?