Thursday, August 12, 2010
dress yr feminist subtext in wolf shirts and flannel
My friend Matt from Buffalo and now from Brooklyn was in town this past weekend. He's the funniest person. We were talking about good date spots for him to take all the girls he's gonna date, and when I suggest a picnic, he said, "Picnic? I haven't heard of that place, is it in Williamsburg?" Like, dead serious. I can't get over how funny that is. It sums the whole thing up. I'm the cheesehead that said, "New York is so, um, like, i dunno...consumerist?" So we all have silly things to say.
What was great was that we got to see a movie the night before he left. Going to see movies has been a big part of our friendship. The toss up was between I Am Love, the Italian movie with Tilda Swinton the alien muse of that go fug yourself blog, and Winter's Bone. I always prefer the stark and violent over the love and sex. Winter's Bone has the guy from Me and You and etc Miranda July and also Deadwood and something else that I can't recall. Laura Palmer is in it for two shakes, and she has aged very well.
Winter's Bone is all in the rural poor Missouri, squirrel eating and teaching little kids to shoot guns for survival. An amazing seventeen year old girl has to track down her methhead dad so that her family (totally shut down mom, little bro and sis, a million cats and dogs) doesn't lose the land and become homeless. She has to slog through all sorts of family and community crap and violence to get her information. If you like noir films, I think this is a good one.
There is a chainsaw scene that will blow your mind. If you don't mind, I'll tell you about it in the comments. It's amazing. That seventeeen year old girl is amazing.
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that's such a good review. i had no interested in that movie until now and now i'm totally interested. tell me about the chainsaw thing. i'm going to go to the movies more if peter moves in and my rent is cheaper.
ReplyDeleteSo, about the chainsaw. Basically, this girl fights everyone for proof that her dad is dead so she can bring it to the sheriff and her family's land won't be repossessed because her dad didn't show up for court and the bailbondsmen will take it all. She's pretty sure he's dead but no one will help her solve the mystery until finally she makes it clear that she doesn't give a hooey who killed him, she just needs proof to keep her land and her family together. So, the womenfolk from the crew that probably killed her dad take her to some woods, they get in a canoe with a chainsaw, and eventually they stop and tell her to reach down under a water tree and she's going to chainsaw off her dad's hands. she can't do it but she does have to hold his hand up so one of the ladies in the canoe can do it. the first hand, she totally wails, but then the lady says we have to do both else the sheriff will say he cut off one hand to avoid jail, and so for the second one, she's pretty much ice. it's really killer. these women are amazing.
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