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Mo (Tunde Adebimpe) and Polly (Kristen Wiig) in Nasty Baby. |
Population disconnection
By Miranda Inganni
Polly (Kristen Wiig) really wants to have a baby. So does her friend, Freddy (Sebastián Silva). Unfortunately, Freddy’s sperm ain’t cutting it, so his partner, Mo (Tunde Adebimpe) has to step in.
Unlike Freddy’s sperm, the three friends get along swimmingly, even when their bohemian Brooklyn life is interrupted by the local mentally unstable, quasi-homeless, sometimes-violent, homophobe who calls himself “The Bishop” (Reg E. Cathey). In the meantime, when not having hip dinner parties and getting high, Freddy is working on a new video installation entitled “Nasty Baby,” which features him and his friends acting like babies.
Starting out as a sweet buddy study, Nasty Baby takes an unexpected turn for the violent. Perhaps Silva took on too much in this film (for which he wrote the screenplay, directs and stars in – as well as featuring his brother, cat and apartment in the film), as it feels like it lacks a definitive voice and focus. The film is overshadowed by a sense of subtlety, with the threesome casually chumming it up, until it is aggressively not subtle. Things escalate so very quickly in a non-realistic way.
Why would Polly lie about being pregnant? Does no one have any common sense? Has Polly’s medical training taught her nothing? What does neighbor Richard (Mark Margolis) actually do other than show up at convenient times and own a vehicle?
Nasty Baby’s inconsistency is a detriment to what would otherwise be an exploration of a lovely, if unconventional, family origin story.
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