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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Smiley Face (2007)


A comedy by Gregg Araki.
A girl eats a whole plate of cannabis cupcakes on a day when she has lots of things to do. Nothing works out the way she planned and she ends up getting in trouble.
For me to think that a comedy is funny is really something special. I liked the first half of the film and got the humor, but the end wasn't to my liking.Of course it was "new movie too perfect" in every way and most of the characters were shallow. We were allowed enough information on the main character to ascertain her incredible stupidity. I'm going to be nice and rate this adequate.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Mysterious Skin (2004)


A drama by Gregg Araki.
2 boys are sexually abused by their baseball coach at a young age. As they are growing up, they lead opposite lives. When they are young men in college, they meet and one tells the other what really happened when they were children.
At first I was confused when the film switched from one boy to another, but eventually the plot developed and made sense. The style was decent and the film was well made. The characters and plot were done very well too. The subject matter isn't what I would normally watch though. For a well made film about homosexual pedophilia, I'm rating it o.k.