Marcus (Andren Scott) is a pathetic loser that has nothing going for him. He works as a security guard at night and spends his days sitting on his couch in his underwear, eating Slim Jim’s and watching porn channels. When that no longer does it for him, he takes to hiring hookers (but not before lowballing them on the price). Marcus makes audio tapes of his encounters, and eventually buys a camcorder to make secret videos of his humiliating attempts to score.
Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend is like a low budget version of Taxi Driver without the extreme violence. It’s also frequently hilarious thanks to Scott’s tour de force performance. (I mean, he better be good as he’s in virtually every scene.) He gets lots of big laughs, especially when he’s delivering his long, whiny narration. Some of the lines are downright priceless. (“My chin is being swallowed up by the abyss once known as my neck!”) He’s so good that you eventually wind up feeling kind of sorry for Marcus in an oddly touching way, even though he is a total creepy perv.
Whenever the lightning pacing threatens to slow, there’s a long scene of Marcus watching “Cable X” where we get to see women doing long stripteases on television. I don’t always recommend putting padding in your movie, but if it’s an absolute must, then this is the kind of padding I would go with. When he switches out cable video starlets for hookers, we get lots of scenes of hookers undressing. Variety is the spice of life as they say.
Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend should be shown in film schools across the globe. It is a lesson to future filmmakers that even though you might not have much of a budget to work with, you can still make a classic if you have a hilarious guy in the lead role and plenty of extras who are willing to get naked at the drop of a hat. It’s a one-of-a-kind, surreal experience and one of the best movies I have seen in a long time.
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