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For me this movie is about losing things and being lost. And it makes the observation that when you're lost you can end up losing things that you didn't know you had much less that you wanted to keep.
Cat (Dominique Swain) doesn't know who she is, which ironically doesn't keep her from not liking who she is. And in the people around her -- family and friends, adults and peers -- she finds varying amounts of belonging, rejection, hope, and disillusionment. In other words, Cat is just 17 in a way that should be familiar to us.
That's one of the strengths of Christina Wayne's quiet, mature film is the feeling of verite. I've never been young and rich in NYC (or near-rich, or formerly-rich, or trying-to-keep-up- with-the-rich) but Wayne's portrait seems so detailed it makes me really curious to know if she has been. Far from being "Just another spoiled rich kids film - _Kids_ meets _Metropolitan_!" Wayne shows us Cat trying to "fit in" and a diverse number of reasons -- from financial to social to emotional to behavioral -- why you can cast out of this insular, cannibalistic sub-culture.
Another strength is Wayne's direction and writing. The film is well-constructed with strong characters, with images and (Yeah, I'll say it ...) motifs that appear once and then quietly reappear in different contexts. And all throughout Wayne shows a really nice eye for pictures.
Plus she's got really good people doing good work. I mean, everyone is in this movie: Swain, Renfro, Phillips, Zehetner, Chabert and Barton (before they had to try to be smoking hot), Scott Thompson of _Kids in the Hall_ fame. She even gets Melanie Griffith to do a walk-on.
One thing the film has going against it is the marketing. Looking at the trailer and the film poster, it's clear that Lions Gate or whoever didn't know how to pitch this film. It seems like they wanted it to be naughtier or rowdier or ... brighter than it is. But it's not a melodrama. There are no simple heroes and villains, no moralizing on right and wrong, no suspense- ridden plot. It's the type of character-based, even, sad, dramatic storytelling that seems to go down better in Canada that here in the States.
I like it, though. If you've got a quiet morning and some time, it deserves a try.
Cat (Dominique Swain) doesn't know who she is, which ironically doesn't keep her from not liking who she is. And in the people around her -- family and friends, adults and peers -- she finds varying amounts of belonging, rejection, hope, and disillusionment. In other words, Cat is just 17 in a way that should be familiar to us.
That's one of the strengths of Christina Wayne's quiet, mature film is the feeling of verite. I've never been young and rich in NYC (or near-rich, or formerly-rich, or trying-to-keep-up- with-the-rich) but Wayne's portrait seems so detailed it makes me really curious to know if she has been. Far from being "Just another spoiled rich kids film - _Kids_ meets _Metropolitan_!" Wayne shows us Cat trying to "fit in" and a diverse number of reasons -- from financial to social to emotional to behavioral -- why you can cast out of this insular, cannibalistic sub-culture.
Another strength is Wayne's direction and writing. The film is well-constructed with strong characters, with images and (Yeah, I'll say it ...) motifs that appear once and then quietly reappear in different contexts. And all throughout Wayne shows a really nice eye for pictures.
Plus she's got really good people doing good work. I mean, everyone is in this movie: Swain, Renfro, Phillips, Zehetner, Chabert and Barton (before they had to try to be smoking hot), Scott Thompson of _Kids in the Hall_ fame. She even gets Melanie Griffith to do a walk-on.
One thing the film has going against it is the marketing. Looking at the trailer and the film poster, it's clear that Lions Gate or whoever didn't know how to pitch this film. It seems like they wanted it to be naughtier or rowdier or ... brighter than it is. But it's not a melodrama. There are no simple heroes and villains, no moralizing on right and wrong, no suspense- ridden plot. It's the type of character-based, even, sad, dramatic storytelling that seems to go down better in Canada that here in the States.
I like it, though. If you've got a quiet morning and some time, it deserves a try.
I swear, people are sheep. They are 100%, died in the wool, that wool pulled over their eyes sheep. Honestly, I don't think anyone really looks at how easy it is to sway public opinion. Look at how many people STILL believe that our attack on Iraq was part of the War Against Terror when everyone, even administration who wanted the war!, said that Iraq was not a terrorist state and that there was nothing between Hussein and militant fundamentalist Islamic cells other than hostility. But point people to something and tell them it's "Baddddd" and they'll move right along, "Baddddd!" (<--- Imagine sheep noise for full effect.) "Yay! Something we get to pick on! Yay! Something we get to throw stones at!"
Case in point ... _Gigli_. I watched it recently, waiting for it to suck. "It's supposed to suck," I said. "When't it going to start sucking?" Now, I'm not saying it's _Citizen Kane_ or anything, but it's far, far from being the laughable Crap Fest that everyone says it was. It seemed like a decent Romantic ... I don't quite know what genre to put it in. It's not a Romantic Comedy because it's not trying to be funny. It's kind of a softer _Out of Sight_ or a _Get Shorty_ with a more even pace that's not trying to be a hip satire. Maybe it's just me. Maybe I have no taste. But more likely people wanted to jump on the "Dump on the Hollywood Couple That Everyone Loved to Hate" Bandwagon.
Look, _Gigli's_ not fabulous, but it's not bad. Get over yourselves. Oh, and to the guy who thought the yoga scene was overlong ... you may be right. So to save you more torture, the next time Jennifer Lopez chooses to do contortions in skin tight workout clothes while languidly discussing the wonders of the vagina, give me your ticket. Straight up, I will sit in for you. No, no. Don't thank me. It's the least I can do.
Case in point ... _Gigli_. I watched it recently, waiting for it to suck. "It's supposed to suck," I said. "When't it going to start sucking?" Now, I'm not saying it's _Citizen Kane_ or anything, but it's far, far from being the laughable Crap Fest that everyone says it was. It seemed like a decent Romantic ... I don't quite know what genre to put it in. It's not a Romantic Comedy because it's not trying to be funny. It's kind of a softer _Out of Sight_ or a _Get Shorty_ with a more even pace that's not trying to be a hip satire. Maybe it's just me. Maybe I have no taste. But more likely people wanted to jump on the "Dump on the Hollywood Couple That Everyone Loved to Hate" Bandwagon.
Look, _Gigli's_ not fabulous, but it's not bad. Get over yourselves. Oh, and to the guy who thought the yoga scene was overlong ... you may be right. So to save you more torture, the next time Jennifer Lopez chooses to do contortions in skin tight workout clothes while languidly discussing the wonders of the vagina, give me your ticket. Straight up, I will sit in for you. No, no. Don't thank me. It's the least I can do.
