Running With Scissors,based on the bestselling novel by Augusten Burroughs,revolves around an amazing and beautiful story-with its set of wonderful characters and their dysfunctional relationships,but translating this into a movie ultimately results in a weak,messy and horribly empty film.
Watching this film was frustrating mostly due to its disorganized and incoherent nature-characters enter and exit,subplots appear and vanish,soon the main focus (presumably the alienated son and delusional mother,and their relationship) simply blurs out and halfway through,the story starts driving aimlessly and audiences on the ride are given no clue of which direction the story intends to take and i was just too bored to pay attention and just wanted the movie to finish.Even the stellar cast full of big names including Annette Benning,Alec Baldwin,Gwyneth Paltrow and Patrick Wilson can't save this sinking ship-the characters are written with dark sattire and sharp humour in mind,and at times they do succeed in entertaining us but overall they lack the heart and sincerity to really intrigue us or arouse our sympathy and interest.Rated only 29% on RT,the film starts of trying to be a comedy and proceeds in a predictable fashion,injecting small emotional scenes that are immediately cut off before they become too developed and before you know it's a full-blown family drama-but it neither succeeds as a comedy or drama,it's just a confusing film that contradicts itself too much to be engaging.
But it has a good soundtrack,some good songs from the film:
Elton John-Bennie & The Jets
Catherine Feeney-Mr. Blue
Currenly watching Litte Miss Sunshine again on dvd,i reckon this small,meaningful and simple film is the best i've watched this year,the other two being 2:37 and The Prestige,and maybe even The Departed-but there are plenty more i intend to watch namely Deliver Us From Evil,Pan's Labyrinth,Babel,Half Nelson,The Queen and Deja Vu-my picks mostly based on these two lists and other recommendations.The biggest disappointment this year has got to be Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette,considering all her previous films were really good and Lost In Translation was insanely excellent,i expected so much more.I'll be watching more films over the holiday and who knows,there might be some underdog films that could possibly knock Little Miss Sunshine down from being the year's fave for me.
3 comments:
hey, nak pinjam Lost in Translation and Lil Ms Sunshine dvd can ar? last time i attempted watchin the former on projector, twas too blurry. and the latter well, its NOT showin in msia as i hoped...
i wanna watch Deja Vu in cinemas here. watched Click on dvd last nite and i must say its surprisingly emotional for an Adam Sandler flick. hey is that malay flick Cinta worth watching? SHortbus aint tht bad ynoe. i liked the emotional exposure.
yeah now ur 18 u can finally watch 18+ films lol. hey, dun forget to call me abt the details. cya soooon.
p/s: my blog misses u!
btw, checked out regina spektor...she aint bad
about cinta i;ve heard several ppl say it's good so it must be so-u have to watch lost in translation!i don't think i have the dvd but i hv the one for lil miss sunshine.watched click and yea the final part involving his dad was quite touchy..
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