Friday, May 27, 2011
REVOLUTIONARY
Today's movie was
a Canadian film with Jay Baruchel about a kid who thinks that he is the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky.
This sounds like a premise that would fly off the reel but, since they play it totally straight faced, it is a great movie.
A little like a political Ferris Buehler.
I like Jay Baruchel. The movie was made in Montreal. I like Canada.
Canadian films get no respect from distributors or critics in the US.
This is too bad because this is a good example of a fine film that should have gotten more attention. It is a comedy, but in its way, dead serious. About power in schools and how it is used.
Baruchel is a fine actor, constrained to the dumb guy role in American films but still victorious. He is dedicated to working in Canada and to Canadian theater and film. Good for him.
This is so good I will see it again sometime as a retrospective of Jay B. Or something.
My life is not long enough to see all the fives that I have done but still I am going to make a jab at it.
Labels: films
