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Press Reviews - Thursday, December 14, 2000
"For me, the highlight of the entire film is an interview with Richie where he is asked if he has any girls in his life. Richie looks up from the junk he is soldering together to respond "You promised me you weren't going to ask me about girls." It was at this point the Hobbit curled up in a ball on the floor and laughed till he barfed. Normally you'd feel sorry for a loser like this, but Roswell just makes the whole damn thing funny. "
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Posted By: Hobbit 9/24/00

[Six Days in Roswell]
Release Date: October 1, 2000
Starring: Richard Kronfield
Directed By: Timothy B. Johnson

The Hobbit is not normally one to sit around watching documentaries. But this weekend I was bored, nothing else to do, so I popped in a preview tape that someone over at Beatnik Home Entertainment had sent me in the hopes that I'd give them a review. They're in luck.

6 Days in Roswell is a documentary that follows the exploits of a 30 something year old loser, Richard Kronfield, who journey's to Roswell, New Mexico on the 50th anniversary of the supposed UFO landing there. In short, this is a movie about a total dork going to visit a town flooded with total dorks doing the dorkiest most pathetic things imaginable.

Despite the fact that I rarely enjoy documentaries, I found myself liking 6 Days in Roswell. Frankly, it's a huge ego boost to watch people like this... Because no matter how dorky or odd, or seemingly pathetic you may think you are, these people are worse, much worse. Richie, the star of the film, still lives with his mother for god's sake! He spends all of his time putting together electronic parts.. but not even in that semi-cool computer geek kind of way, he put together circa 1980 stuff and thinks its cool. The most advanced piece of machinery in his junk pile of a bedroom is an Apple 2e... and he is proud of this.

Those little glimpses into Richie's home life are what makes the film immensely entertaining. Oh sure, all the stuff about Roswell, and how insanely obsessed these people are with aliens that may or may not exist is fun too, but the looks into Richie's mom's house, and his life there... there is where you'll find something special. For me, the highlight of the entire film is an interview with Richie where he is asked if he has any girls in his life. Richie looks up from the junk he is soldering together to respond "You promised me you weren't going to ask me about girls." It was at this point the Hobbit curled up in a ball on the floor and laughed till he barfed. Normally you'd feel sorry for a loser like this, but Roswell just makes the whole damn thing funny.

Sadly, about * of the way through the film, the director begins to focus more on what is happening in Roswell to Richie, and gives us less of the flashbacks to Richie's home life. But if you just shut the thing off about then, you'll end the experience with a smile on your face.

Ok, honestly, there probably is a deeper level to this thing than just watching Richie and his sad life, but the point is, you don't have to dig deeper to enjoy 6 Days in Roswell. One of my problems with documentaries like this is usually that the director wastes a lot of time trying to make you feel sorry for the people in his film. He presents them and their lives in such a way that you wish they could do better, and you find yourself feeling guilty by the end of the flick. 6 Days in Roswell at no point attempts to do this. Richie is who he is and Roswell isn't asking you to wish that he become something else. If you want to feel better about yourself, if you get a kick out of watching people do stupid things, if you think rednecks are funny, when 6 Days in Roswell is released on October 1, give it a try.

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