Belushi's Toilet

Belushi's Toilet
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Directed by	Andrew Wright
Produced by	Terry-Ann Wright Voitek Pendrak Chris Kay
Written by	Andrew Wright Mark Sear
Starring	Mark Nocent James Soares-Correia Hayden Finkelshtain Alex Frankson Nancy Morrison
Cinematography	Voitek Pendrak
Edited by	Andrew Wright
Production company	Liquid Stairs
Distributed by	Indie Rights
Release date	September 8, 2018
Running time	2h 1m
Country	Canada
Language	English

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Belushi's Toilet is a 2018 science fiction drama film, directed by British-Canadian filmmaker Andrew Wright and starring Mark Nocent, James Soares-Correia, Hayden Finkelshtain, Alex Frankson and Nancy Morrison. It is based on the web series of the same name. The film is set in a post-prohibition future where all street drugs have been legalized and follows four friends as they attempt to create the perfect new recreational drug with no harsh comedown.

The story explores themes of drug prohibition, harm reduction, hedonism, determinism, free will, solipsism and nihilism, set against a soundtrack of acid house, techno, drum and bass, house, trance and chip music.

The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto Independent Film Festival, winning best sci-fi feature.

Plot

In the not so distant future, the war on drugs is considered a failure. The prohibition of recreational drugs has ended. Three friends deal with the aftermath of a failed new party drug, synthesized by their mutual biochemist friend Mason 'Supplies' Sargosta, who is on a mission to synthesize the ultimate recreational drug. During their recovery, Supplies persuades the group to continue with the trials, suggesting they test each variation of his next compound at a multi-day retro electronic music festival. The group, who are all nostalgic of "prohibition-era" music, reluctantly agree to continue with the experiment.

Adrian Carter, a young man with an interest in "early century" hardware, discovers an old set of turntables in an antique store, along with a collection of old vinyl records. His attempt at mastering the confusing looking setup is interrupted by Supplies, who turns their meeting into an inevitable drug binge, snorting a white powder off a spiraling line placed onto a spinning vinyl record.

Supplies, while struggling to get his latest formula working, gets hauled in front of his boss, who is suspicious of the large amount of unusual chemical compounds his department is ordering. Rather than experimenting with recreational drugs, Supplies is supposed to be working on a cure for an unnamed disease that appears to be afflicting a large percentage of the population, including Adrian's grandmother, who appears to have a terminal case. Adrian is also at high risk from the disease and has to be tested frequently.

Hyman 'Stomach' Katzenellenbogen is a nervous character, lacking in self-confidence, especially when around women. His latest attempt at a date is ruined when he tries to boost his confidence using a random drug that inevitably makes him extremely arrogant and even more agitated. He ultimately turns to Supplies for a confidence boosting drug that makes him appear highly desirable to women.

Raul 'Advice' Alvarez is an over-confident, chauvinistic drug user, who likes to believe that he is in complete control, even when obviously out of his depth. In order to make him less egoistical, Supplies feeds him a drug that gives him an obsessive-compulsive disorder to snort his own powdered skin, feces and hair. As his sanity worsens, Advice becomes convinced that his powdered biological waste material is in fact the perfect new drug they have been trying to discover.

After many more failed attempts of using the new drugs at several raves, Stomach becomes suspicious that Supplies is not actually testing any of his own compounds on himself, and that they are the only real guinea pigs. After parting on bad terms, Supplies manages to convince them he has finally synthesized the perfect drug, which he calls "Belushi's Toilet". The friends, now low on willpower after taking a break from drugs, over-indulge on packets of the new pills.

The drug Belushi's Toilet has very profound and different effects on each of the friends. As the levels of the drug in his bloodstream fluctuate, Adrian is propelled on a conflicting journey of powerful waves of spiritualty, contrasted by opposing views of materialism, as he grapples with the death of his grandmother. Through a recurring vision of growing mold, the drug appears to connect Adrian and his grandmother on a higher level of consciousness that transmits her disease to him, which confounds his doctor. Supplies is fired from his job and becomes a long-haired recluse, eventually being arrested for poisoning a long list of missing previous girlfriends with experimental drugs. Stomach turns into an arrogant paranoid hoarder, who meets up with the now jittery Advice, who while continuing to snort his own feces, has devolved into someone obsessed with the materially organic and savage nature of humanity.

Adrian's suffers a complete break from reality. He hallucinates that he is being celebrated for his imaginary accomplishments of extending the human life span, while in reality he is inside a futuristic bio-pod, receiving treatment using the drug that Supplies was supposed to have perfected for his disease. After being warned by a mysterious party guest that breathing in the spores of the ever-growing mold patch would "turn him into a woman", he imagines that he exchanges consciousness with his dead grandmother, who goes on to live the party lifestyle that he ultimately prioritized over his own health.

The film ends with Adrian as his own grandmother, hugging "himself" on a high-rise balcony after having a lesbian encounter with his former girlfriend. His head is shown to suddenly swell from the terrible side effects of the sloppily-synthesized disease treatment drug, that had become less important than the pursuit of the perfect high.

Cast

Top billing

• Mark Nocent as Adrian Carter
• James Soares-Correia as Mason 'Supplies' Sargosta
• Hayden Finkelshtain as Hyman 'Stomach' Katzenellenbogen
• Alex Frankson as Raul 'Advice' Alvarez
• Nancy Morrison as Eva Carter

Cameo appearances

• The character DJ Sean Coronary, seen playing virtual turntables at the island rave, is played by prominent rave DJ Slipmatt.
• Director and writer Andrew Wright appears briefly as a man sitting on a wall wearing VR glasses, while Adrian and Advice discuss their state of mind.

Production

Filming took place over three years on location in Toronto, Oakville and London. The large scale acid house rave was shot in a former factory in the Lower Junction district of Toronto, which now houses the Museum of Contemporary Art and organized by Promise, a Toronto rave collective.

Reception

Critical response

Film critic Chris Olson of UK Film Review lauded the production as a "remarkable indie film", commenting that "Wright and co-writer Mark Sear continually tap into intriguing philosophical dilemmas with their characters and plot, and explore ideas that only a new world order could sustain."

Alan Ng of Film Threat was more critical of the lack of a firm stance on the subject of drug prohibition, but opined that the filmmakers "have some interesting, even profound, things to say and present about this inevitable future."

Accolades

Festival	Award	Recipient(s)	Result
Toronto Independent Film Festival (2018)	Best Sci-fi Feature	Andrew Wright, Terry-Ann Wright, Voitek Pendrak, Chris Kay	Won
Miami Webfest (2017)	Best International Screenplay	Andrew Wright, Mark Sear	Won

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features many prominent electronic music artists from the early 1990s UK rave scene, chip music musicians from the 1980s Commodore 64 scene, alongside contemporary electronic music spanning several genres. Artists include Slipmatt, Oliver Lieb, Solar Fields, Matt Gray, Rob Hubbard, The Moog, Justice & Mercy and Martin Galway.

Track list

• "Broken Lighthouse Initiative", performed by Binster
• "Here's the Thing", performed by Binster
• "Thing on a Spring", performed by Rob Hubbard
• "Breaking Free (Slipmatt & Rocket Pimp Remix)", performed by Slipmatt
• "Breaking Free (Original Mix)", performed by Slipmatt
• "Fake Lobsters", performed by Justice & Mercy
• "Thrust", performed by Visa Röster
• "Wizball High Score / Wizball Bonus Level", performed by Tonka
• "Under Siege", performed by Anthony Atcherley
• "Sanquinoxe", performed by Marcel Donné
• "Radio Rental", performed by Anthony Atcherley
• "Beef", performed by Anthony Atcherley
• "Detroit", performed by Anthony Atcherley
• "A Mission Nocturnal", performed by Follow Me
• "Rush Hour (Obviously High Remix)", performed by The Moog
• "Mega Apocalypse", performed by Matt Gray
• "Treasure Island Dizzy", performed by Matt Gray
• "Bangkok Knights Loader", performed by Sidman 64
• "Space Romance", performed by StardonE
• "Soothe My Soul", performed by Justice & Mercy
• "Jungle Muffin", performed by The Moog
• "Like a Drug", performed by DJ Nee
• "Shadows", performed by Binster
• "Netherworld", performed by L.S.G.
• "The Darker Side of Prague", performed by Obviously High
• "Weak Transponder", performed by Ochre
• "Red Giant", performed by Stellardrone
• "Zone 12", performed by Solar Fields
• "No Answer", performed by Solar Fields
• "Open Cluster", performed by Stellardrone
• "Time Slide", performed by Solar Fields
• "Delta", performed by Chris Abbott and Alistair Bowness
• "Like a Saxmachine", performed by Raul Rincon & Phonk of Future
• "My Body", performed by Obviously High
• "Air of Perdition", performed by Matt Gray

External Links

• Official website
• Belushi's Toilet at IMDb
• Belushi's Toilet at Rotten Tomatoes

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