TheStrange Thing About the Johnsons. The Strange Thing About the Johnsons is a 2011 American short film written and directed by Ari Aster. The film stars Billy Mayo, Brandon Greenhouse, and Angela Bullock as members of a suburban family in which the son is involved in an abusive incestuous relationship with his father. Scriptwriting. TheStrange Thing About the Johnsons 2011 ★★ Watched Jul 09, 2019. josh lewis's review published on Letterboxd: this mostly works as a series of blunt force ratcheting shocks—and telegraphs well in advance everything you'll either love or hate about this guy's self-satisfied construction and sadistic (perhaps irresponsible) humor—but TheStrange Thing About The Johnsons . I've just finished this and found it a hard watch. I just wondered what people's views were regarding the father/son abuse. Do you think it's likely the father initiated the abuse and the film showed the son's reactions as he was older and stronger? Inrecent years, few films have been as controversial as Ari Aster's 2011 short film, The Strange Thing About The Johnsons . In just 29-minutes, the shocking and taboo short film, which was also Aster's thesis film from American Film Institute's graduate school, AFI Conservatory, absolutely shocked the film world. Though the Hereditary and Midsommar director is a Jewish man, his breakout TheStrange Thing About the Johnsons. Ocena korisnika-7,2. Naslov: The Strange Thing About the Johnsons Godina: 2011 Žanr: drama, kratki, horor Trajanje: 28 min Režija: Ari Aster. Scenario: Ari Aster. Glavne uloge: Angela Bullock > Joan Stanley Bennett Clay > Howard Reatha Grey TheStrange Thing About The Johnsons. 134 likes · 2 talking about this. Movie TheStrange Thing About the Johnsons. Ocjena korisnika-7,2. Naslov: The Strange Thing About the Johnsons Godina: 2011 Žanr: drama, kratki, horor Trajanje: 28 min Režija: Ari Aster. Scenarij: Ari Aster. Glavne uloge: Angela Bullock > Joan Stanley Bennett Clay > Howard Reatha Grey TheStrange Thing About the Johnsons was his first directorial work while still a student at the American Film Institute. He was discussing taboos with his friends, as one does; where a comedic writer may be looking for a hat on a hat to work into their screenplay, Ari made up a taboo on top of a taboo. TheStrange Thing About the Johnsons - don't ask, just watch! Worth watching, really. Just not to be praised for "mastery". It was an impressive low-budget production that proves the filmmaker (s) is/are ready for the big league. Acting was 50/50, with the father outshining and the mother almost there. It's also cynical, gross and a bit InThe Strange Thing About the Johnsons, Aster has constructed a situation so absurd, so perverse that it's practically comical, almost as if he is daring the audience to accept his twisted tale. But, this contrast-the comically absurd versus the deeply dramatic-is what makes the film so special. The film manages to carry heavy loads of 4gtcYiH.