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To be sure, The Chumscrubber exaggerates the situation. But we know when we watch the exaggeration, that there is a truth underlying it all. As long as we allow ourselves and our communities to be self-absorbed, we may think we are on our way to happiness, but in reality we are merely fooling ourselves with false ideas of happiness. Only when we finally come into honest relationships with others (as eventually happens between Dean and Troy’s mother – both of whom are seeking to avoid grief) that we can find real happiness.

Oh yeah, the title. All through the film, the youth are reading comics or playing video games featuring a character called “The Chumscrubber”. This is a post-apocalyptic zombie-like character who wakes up one day to discover his head has come off his body. He travels around carrying his head, fighting the other monsters. He says of his existence, “I’m not dead, but what kind of life is this.” Indeed. The film calls us to consider if we are in effect zombies wandering the world fighting off other demons, but not really living any kind of real life.
--Darrel Manson

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