Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.... (Full plot summary below)
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Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.
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| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerBeyond putting the focus back on the artist and his art, what makes Jones’ documentary important is that it actually takes on internet culture in a serious fashion. |
| SlashfilmAbby OlceseFeels Good Man is, in some sense, a horror movie about the legacy of images, the ownership of images by their creators, and the lives they take on outside of the artists who make them. In particular, it’s a horror story about the life of one particular image: Pepe. |
| Slant MagazineDerek SmithThat the democratization of the internet has opened a doorway for fascist ideologies to openly quash democratic ones is an irony that isn’t lost on the film. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzPepe was been turned into something he was never intended to be. His creator and steward didn't realize what was occurring until it was too late to halt or reverse it. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenDirector Arthur Jones delivers a fascinating deep dive into meme culture, tracing how something like this can happen so quickly in our viral age. |
| San Francisco ChronicleJoseph Bien-KahnJones uses Furie’s story, and some gorgeous animation, as a wonderfully succinct window into the way social media has changed the country. By letting 4channers speak for themselves, the film also puts a face to the bad actors without ever letting them off the hook. |
| IndieWireDavid EhrlichThis isn’t just the definitive story of a perma-stoned frog who just likes to do what “feels good man,” it’s also an expansive forensic look at the life cycle of an idea, a warp-speed analysis of internet sociology, and a harrowingly modern fable about innocence lost. If the film can’t find a way to be all of those things at once, it’s still horrific and fascinating and maybe even a little bit hopeful to see how this strange world of ours has knotted them together. |
| The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckBecause seeing what happened to Furie and his chill stoner frog dude — spoiler alert, he became a hate symbol of the alt right — will likely make your blood run cold. It sure makes for a chillingly effective internet-era cautionary tale. |
| The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAt its best, the movie is a vertiginous, head-slapping examination of the tangible, unpredictable consequences of making art. |
| VarietyNick SchagerFeels Good Man offers an inside peek at the internet’s growing ability to affect and shape modern society, which often makes the film a nightmare about extremism and technology. |
