One of my favorite RLM re:Views is their one on Freddy Got Fingered because it focuses in on the main confusion regarding it: is this the film equivalent of a shitpost? Did Tom Green pull one of the greatest pranks on the movie industry imaginable, or was he actually trying to make a traditional comedy film that he was putting some serious thought and artistic effort into?
Was the bit where he spontaneously decided to jump out of his car on the freeway, sprint onto a farm, and jerk off a horse to completion a serious attempt by Mr. Green to write a funny scene, or is the scene's existence the joke? It almost reads like a Lynchian deconstruction of comedy films, the American Pies and Caddyshacks of the world seen through a mirror darkly as some demented cultural critique. Or it just reads that way because it's really really really fucking stupid.
It's basically the same bit that Tim & Eric did far more obviously in their Billion Dollar Movie, with them both walking around the whole movie with spraytans and expensive haircuts, and the entire opening ten minutes or so with Jeff Goldblum and Diamond Jim. You can't question what angle Tim & Eric were approaching the movie because they don't leave you any opportunity to see it any other way. And that's how they do things, they've always been that way and that's just their style. But then there's the Nathan Fielders of the world who blur the lines between performance and reality so deeply that the blurring itself becomes the style.
Did Tom Green pull a Nathan Fielder before Nathan Fielder? I genuinely cannot tell.