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This is a movie I’m loathe to review because to me it would be great if everybody just discovered it the same way I did, which is, to just see it in a video store or something (I saw it on the big screen) and think, “that looks interesting,” and just give it a chance, and be blown away. And I can’t talk about the movie without mentioning the ending, yet I simply can’t talk about the ending.
This movie is real visual poetry in places. There’s elements of Lolita, elements of Edward Scissorhands, and this amazing performance, a debut, by Mischa Barton, a wide-eyed free spirit in a BS small-town world. She meets the equally talented Sam Rockwell. They do similar things like stripping off in the open and howling at the moon. They become friends. And of course it ends sour. But not for the wide-eyed free spirit.
The music is beautiful (especially in the ending, which I just can’t talk about). Just give it a chance – it’s short, and the DVD has no time-consuming extra features.
[…] I get the feeling that this is always going to be one of those movies I feel like I dreamt. There were a number of details in this viewing that I have literally no recollection of seeing before, even though I was watching the exact same copy of the movie that I watched the first time. If anything, the movie is more disturbing than I grudgingly admitted in the first review; but bizarrely, at the same time, I find it even more beautiful than ever. There’s really not much more I want to say at this point, except, “Squirrel butts don’t glow!” I’d also add to the “little girl lost” themed movies I referred to in the first review as good companions for it, aside from the obvious Alice and Wonderland adaptations, this would also work brilliantly alongside Lawn Dogs … I can’t believe it didn’t occur to me before. […]