A closer look
Long before it was trendy to ironically watch The Room, Greek-French surrealist Ado Kyrou was making a career out of praising absolute cinematic garbage. As a foundational voice in 1950s surrealist film criticism, Kyrou aggressively argued that commercial Hollywood trash and horribly made B-movies were actually accidental masterpieces. He believed that when incompetent directors failed to tell a coherent story, they accidentally revealed the chaotic, dreamlike truth of the subconscious, basically inventing the modern ethos of "so bad it's good."
