Monday, March 31, 2008
THE SAME SMALL TOWN WITH NEW KIDS
Today's movie was a very small gem
Since I grew up in one, I am an expert on growing up in small towns and getting out of them. The feeling that you might be stuck there forever. The excitement of change.
This film captures it. Three best friends brought together by their not fitting in.
It has some wonderful moments. A guy doing handsprings and backflips behind one of the love songs. Dancers waltzing in the huge graveyard for which the town is famous. A whole chorus number of barflies who exult at the demise of cupid in their lives. A party that no one wants to be in or at. A pas de deux on a car whose alarm is honking.
And the town, a real one, is a great metaphor.
The songs are the center, written by one of the three stars, the gay one, naturally. Soulful, exuberant and optimistic even when they are at their darkest.
I liked it.
Much of it is amateurish but the verve and spirit is genuine.
I will give it a Netflix3 as a movie movie but a 4 for its heart and soul. I am up there inside one or all of those kids.
Get it.
More about the making of this film here.
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