Boat crashes, almost illicit sexual behavior, and face swapping—nope, we’re not talking about Snapchat’s latest lenses. These three things together can mean only one other thing: John Woo’s 1997 classic movie Face/Off.
For many people, the ludicrous film—starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage as an FBI agent and a terrorist, respectively—is a cult favorite. The two men swap faces (before the teens of today made it cool again) to let the FBI get some intel on a bomb. This eventually leads to some ridiculous action, like a preposterous boat collision and a strange showdown in a church featuring white doves fluttering around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLParF2uOWo
Woo’s masterpiece has a stellar 92-percent Rotten Tomatoes score, establishing itself as one of those weird ’90s films that you really must watch before you die. And that’s a belief clearly shared by one excited film student.
On Thursday night, FX Movie Download host Sasha Perl-Raver shared a paragraph from a paper submitted to her film professor friend. His reaction to Face/Off is as epic as the movie itself.
My friend is a film professor. This is a real paper a student turned in. #iBelieveTheChildrenAreOurFuture pic.twitter.com/jrZaATiOnn
— Sasha Perl-Raver (@sashaperlraver) June 9, 2016
There are so many amazing parts to this nine-line paragraph. Between “so fucking John Woo you don’t even know” and the sincere “It’s bananas!” this student really gets it. Face/Off is so astounding that this student nearly peed their pants the first time they watched it.
We’re with you, kid. Anyone who can confidently turn in a paper with phrases like “almost incest” and “I will fight anybody who dares to tell me this isn’t the best goddamn movie in the world” deserves an A in our book.
We can’t wait for this student to make it as a professional film critic. We need fresh voices like this.
