king of california

I work at the library and as I was shelving DVDs I came across this film. I am often drawn to products, movies especially, by their outward appeal. The case of this movie was rather different from most I've seen, so I decided to give it a try. So essentially this movie, King of California, was about a crazy man and his daughter who has been self-sufficient for most of her life because of her father's problems and her mother's absence. In this film the crazy father ignites an expedition to find treasure. If I say much more I fear that the movie will be ruined. But all in all this was the epitome of a feel good film. It was funny and sweet and the ending entails a brilliant twist, something completely and utterly unexpected. Through out this movie, particularly in the beginning, the girl's crazy father Charlie kept talking about these naked Chinese men landing on a beach in California and pulling clothes out of plastic bags and putting them on. His daughter looked at him like he really lost it, but at the end of the movie the most glorious thing happened. She pulled her beat up car next to the beach somewhere and low and behold these Chinese men start parading out of the water. I thought this was so witty of the director. It proved to much in the sense that the impossible isn't always impossible after all. And I loved that. I feel as if there was nothing too extraordinary about the cinematography of King of California, it was just a movie to be enjoyed by the armature eye, I suppose you could say. Of course there are no implications of me being an "expert" viewer, but I just feel like there was nothing special in that department. There's nothing wrong with that though, sometimes it's good to enjoy a film for the sake of the story, well quite often that's the purpose.