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I have read that this movie was made for only $1.14 million. Hopefully they spent all of that on on a few of the actors and donuts, because everything else was a waste. It seemed that the segments on Peaches' family were from a completely different film, director, etc. There was a quality and depth of acting from those three characters that never appeared anywhere else in the film. Truly that should have been the movie, expanded to 90 minutes, and the rest left on the floor.
The gratuitous suicide at the beginning had no bearing on the plot at all, apart from a hackneyed tack-on ending to try to tie it together. LIke a baloney-miracle whip-twinkie sandwich, none of the parts are very good and they certainly don't fit together.
Any deeper meaning found in this film is in the mind of the viewer. Perhaps it is a sign of artistic merit to prompt analysis, but in this case it had to be merely coincidence. I was able to reach some parallels in contrast between Tate's situation and the skateboarder (so bad I don't remember the characters names.) However the film lacks so in sophistication, character development, insight etc, that this must have been an accident on the film maker's part.
I've also read that the film was constructed from the writer's journals and stories. How sad that these events in his life obviously had enough impact to prompt written stories, a screenplay etc, yet no one involved in the film was able to draw any substance or coherence to what appear to be random depressing events. I think everyone encounters these meaningless, pathetic situations and personalities in our lives, but hopefully we move on to something with more merit quickly, unlike this film.
To the film's credit, most shots were in focus, the color was fine, and the audio was intelligible. Other than that...blah.
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I have read that this movie was made for only $1.14 million. Hopefully they spent all of that on on a few of the actors and donuts, because everything else was a waste. It seemed that the segments on Peaches' family were from a completely different film, director, etc. There was a quality and depth of acting from those three characters that never appeared anywhere else in the film. Truly that should have been the movie, expanded to 90 minutes, and the rest left on the floor.
The gratuitous suicide at the beginning had no bearing on the plot at all, apart from a hackneyed tack-on ending to try to tie it together. LIke a baloney-miracle whip-twinkie sandwich, none of the parts are very good and they certainly don't fit together.
Any deeper meaning found in this film is in the mind of the viewer. Perhaps it is a sign of artistic merit to prompt analysis, but in this case it had to be merely coincidence. I was able to reach some parallels in contrast between Tate's situation and the skateboarder (so bad I don't remember the characters names.) However the film lacks so in sophistication, character development, insight etc, that this must have been an accident on the film maker's part.
I've also read that the film was constructed from the writer's journals and stories. How sad that these events in his life obviously had enough impact to prompt written stories, a screenplay etc, yet no one involved in the film was able to draw any substance or coherence to what appear to be random depressing events. I think everyone encounters these meaningless, pathetic situations and personalities in our lives, but hopefully we move on to something with more merit quickly, unlike this film.
To the film's credit, most shots were in focus, the color was fine, and the audio was intelligible. Other than that...blah.
www.grahambanks.com