Turn Me On, Dammit is a Norwegian coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen. It is based off a Olaug Nilssens' novel, Få meg på, for faen. This film won the best screenplay award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011.
Turn Me On, Dammit is a film about the sexual awakening of Alma, a 15-year-old girl. She is a horny young girl who fantasizes about sexual encounters all the time. One night at a community youth party Alma is with the boy she likes outside when suddenly he pulls his dick out and pokes her with it. She immediately goes back inside to the party and tells her friend, not knowing that one of her friends has a crush on that boy. Due to jealousy Alma's friend makes it seem as if Alma is crazy and is lying about the boy poking her with the dick. She is then made fun of and kicked out of her group of friends. She is the outcast at school and is nicknamed "Dick-Alma." Throughout the film we see how she is constantly trying to gain back her popularity but her sexual awakening and horniness keeps putting her back down as an outcast.
This film was alright. It was supposed to be funny but I didn't find much comedy in it. Maybe its because I am too old for it? The story was a little weird but creative, I can give it that. It had some interesting shots here and there. There were a lot of direct shots where the actors looks straight at the camera as if you are the person she is talking to, eye line match shots. Another technique they used which I wasn't too much a fan of was the use of stills to show what Alma fantasized or imagined all the time. Throughout the film Alma imagines a whole bunch of scenarios and a lot of these scenarios where depicted with black and white stills. I didn't really like that.
Turn Me On, Dammit was alright, not my favorite. I guess it's just not my type of film. Definitely not a must see, but hey thats only my opinion so it doesn't hurt to go watch it and see what you think.
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