This is his revenge, like your snarkiest friend’s nasty commentary on a wedding video, or the romantic comedy version of David Foster Wallace’s essay on cruises, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.” As with Wallace’s cruise, the destination wedding might not be fun, but seeing Reeves and Ryder suffer through it is. You know, the weddings where the couple puts out helpful baskets of flip-flops labeled “Walkin’ Shoes,” because guests have to trek through mud and grass in party clothes to get to the picture-perfect ceremony. Writer/director Victor Levin (“Survivor’s Remorse,” “Mad About You”) has clearly suffered through cutesy weddings where the welcome basket includes fun facts about the history of the area and coupons for foot massages. Roger Reaves grew up a poor farm boy in Georgia and went from making moonshine to. But when Frank and Lindsey are annoying each other most, Reeves and Ryder still have an easy charm and a sparkling chemistry together that gives their characters’ anxieties enough good humor to keep us on their side. Chapman produced, wrote, directed, and scored the documentary. Ryder and Reeves stand out in dark clothes and never stop talking nonsense and complaining about everyone, even in the midst of what has to be one of the most ridiculous sex scenes ever filmed. The rest of the cast is dressed in neutral tones and hardly get a chance to say a word. And at the tedious rehearsal dinner, they find a companionable rhythm in coming up with wordy but hilarious comments on the other guests, who exist in the film only to be insult fodder.įrank and Lindsay are the entire movie. Lindsay goes after companies for bias and poor citizenship, or what Frank terms “a career in reverse fascism.” But their jobs have something significant in common. Frank works for JD Power, which gives out excellence awards to corporations. He spanned the globe in his numerous aircraft smuggling tons of marijuana and cocaine for Pablo Escobar and the Medelln Cartel and at one point was shot down by Colombian Military Jets. Professionally, they appear to be opposites. The adventures of Roger Reaves has you sitting on edge as he tells you his vivid memories of Smuggling Drugs into the U.S. In fact, they pretty much don’t like anything, except maybe for not liking people, gatherings, or the idea of love. Enjoy 199 Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel from Lex Fridman Podcast on Scribd. They don’t like the couple getting married. In this full-length interview, Roger Reaves, former drug smuggler for Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel, talks about his early life in the states of Florida and Georgia while experiencing poverty. The real feelings of Lindsay, Frank, and the movie itself about the various events are revealed because what they think is shown but scratched out: “Just what the world needs – Another Goddamn sunset wedding.” The music shifts from low-key but cheery jazz from the charming score by composer William Ross to a trumpet trill like the opening of a bullfight as we see the film’s title, followed by its more telling alternate: “A Narcissist Can’t Die Because the Whole World Would End.” Subsequent chapter title cards let us know that we are not here to be beguiled by the ostensible charms of the countryside or the festivities, by the welcome baskets or the tour of the winery. Lindsay: “How many destination weddings can there be in Paso Robles?” Frank: “I was hoping there were two.” It begins to dawn on them that they may be going to the same event. He says he stepped away just to get farther from her. She accuses him of trying to get a better seat and compares him to “investment bankers, politicians, terrorists,” and everyone else with no manners. It is strictly in the hyper-verbal, twisted category.įrank and Lindsay start arguing seconds after they meet, when he steps in front of her at the airport gate. In his own words, he is an "adventurous person".The title of “Destination Wedding” may make it sound like a Hallmark Romance film, but this is a romantic comedy with very little romance, and the comedy is not based on gentle misunderstandings. He was shot down twice while in an aircraft and was tortured in a Mexican jail. He spent time in German, Australian, and American penal institutions, while supported by his wife throughout. Reaves served over thirty cumulative years in prison and escaped five times. In his memoir, Smuggler (2016), Reaves claims that Seal paid millions in bribes to the Clintons when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas in order to land planes carrying cocaine at Mena, Arkansas. Reaves employed Barry Seal as a pilot in many of his drug-smuggling operations. He worked for Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel. William Roger Reaves is an American pilot who alleges that he was one of the most prolific drug smugglers in history.
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