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Difficult movie to watch or review
by Kathy (movies profile)
Apr 15, 2007
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7 people found this review helpful
My husband and I saw this movie at the Sarasota Film Festival last night and the best part of the movie was that Macy himself conducted a q & a afterwords.
This movie is about racism, middle-age disillusionment and loneliness...at least as far as I can tell. Mr. Macy said that it is 'Crash' without the edges smoothed out. He also said that it will never be released theatrically which I would imagine is correct. At the same time it was engrossing and kept you practically gritting your teeth throughout.
Macy plays the title character, Edmond, who starts the film leaving work on a Friday afternoon annoyed because his Monday appointment has been pushed to 1:15 which is written on a post-it note and given to him. When he walks by a garishly lit (what other kind is there?) fortune teller's shop, he stops in because the address is 115...she turns over the Tarot cards for him and the pictures certainly look ominous but what she says seems on the surface to be innocous but even more ominous than the cards themselves...she says something like, 'you are not where you belong'. He apparently gives this some serious thought on the way home because he tells his wife, in rather an offhand way, that he is leaving her because he has never loved her. When he does leave is when his real adventures began, along with his descent into madness or hell or whatever. Most of his adventures involve looking for a girl for sex along the streets lined with signs advertising 'NUDE LIVE GIRLS'. The dialogue is very raw, the 'n' word is used with abandon, and there is something to offend everybody.
While I thought this was a really good film, I certainly do not know who to recommend it to...I think you would just have to take a chance on it if it ever came your way. Oh, one other thing Mr. Macy said was that Mamet wrote this as a play originally about 25 years ago and when he wrote the screenplay the only thing he would change to update it was allow cell phones. There is certainly a feeling of suspended time and it is hard to say when it is set exactly but I think that is fitting for this film. |
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