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.

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